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"A saucy or impudent girl." - With readily accessible pudenda
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Old Saying: If you got it Honey flaunt it. This is a New World, It's OK to be a Hussyhttp://brazenhussies.coma nother promise, these are NOT porn sites.http://www.wench.org/about/
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With readily accessible pudendaAh, the joys of latinate polysyllabification, in lieu of the simple anglo-saxonism!  BTW, your same point could have been made by omitting the first and last words. 
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I accidentally stumbled on a part of Barleby I hadn't found before. Fun to browse through for explanations of old phrases: keep clicking on new phrase http://www.bartleby.com/81/4390.html"krotalon" is a dandy Greek word for a tiresome ranter. It means "rattle" and is xource of name of rattlesnakes, "Crotalus horridus".
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Actually, dr. bill, I believe the greek word means "rattle" or "clapper" (and that Aristophanes used it metaphorically, in the sense you suggest.) Thus, the scientific name for the "rattlesnake" is Crotalus terrificus, and the active ingredient in its venom is crotoxin.Edit: apparently dr. bill and I were editing and writing simultaneously. On rechecking, I find that the above-cited are two different types of rattlesnakes.
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What's the opposite of "dumbing down"? Whatever it is, seems like I've gotta learn how to do it to keep up around here. This will be difficult because I, like many of my fellows (cunning though we may be), are monolinguists.
repeats.... We are but simple folk. The hobbits of the South Pacific.
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We are but simple folk. The hobbits of the South Pacific.
I thought hobbits lived in New Zealand . . .
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Now, now, you can’t scare away participants because you are overly pedantic. You can bore them maybe, confuse them perhaps, but scare, not so much. Maybe it was your bedside manner.
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