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Just now I made a post, telling Keiva, aka Rosten that I thought it
the height of insolence to ask Wordsmith to help him, after he had
hinted he would sue Wordsmith, and so obtaining an undeserved
re-instatement.
Imagine my surprise, on checking my dictionary to be told there
no such word. Same with online dictionary. I have used that word
for over sixty years, and am baffled not to find it in dictionary.
Another ancient defintion of insolence: To pee through someone's
front door keyhole, and then ring bell and ask how far it went..
PS typo in first draft corrected per PM from Jmh, whom I thank
for helping me avoid diminishing impact of the post.
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>the height of isolence
I think that there may have been a "little something" missing when you searched, Bill - easily done!
(from Cambridge International Dictionary of English)
insolent
adjective
(of a person or their behaviour) intentionally and rudely showing no respect
At school he was the sort of child that teachers would describe as insolent.
As Moreau begins to talk, the shadowy brown eyes fix you with an almost insolent directness.
insolently
adverb
insolence
noun [U]
She had that dumb (=silent) insolence that teachers find so disturbing.
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I had one teacher upset by my outspoken insolence. I had her try to hit
my hand with a ruler, and she was so dumb she hit her own hand hard when
I snatched my hand away just in time. I spent the next two years being
taught at home by my mother.
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One can imagine. So who really won that one wwh?
- Pfranz
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Dear Capfka: Considering that school never let me study with a piece of apple pie on a plate with
a glass of milk, and my cat and dog for company, I thought school at home was a bargain.If I had
known that might be my punishment, I would have been insolent sooner.
The year before the ruler incident, that bimbo substituted for my teacher, and caught me
whispering. It was well known that she used a rather unusual punishment, supposed to be very
humiliating. The culprit was ordered to crawl into the kneehole of her desk, and be cooped in by
her sitting with her knees in kneehole. As I went up the aisle, I said to my fishing buddy, Eddie
Skorzewski loud enough for whole class to hear:"Bet you a Hershey bar I'll be out in less than two
minutes." I got into the kneehole, she moved her chair to block me in. There was a very loud clock
ticking, and I waited exactly a minute before sticking my head out and saying loudly in a pathetic voice:
"Let me out of here - it stinks!" I got out.
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ah, Unca Bill, you remind me of the punishment used by my Grade 8 teacher (never on me, of course!): If he caught you talking in class, you had to stay back at the end of the day and talk to yourself for five minutes. The punishment increased in length by five minutes, every time you were caught talking on a given day. I remember going back for something I'd forgotten, on a day when the class blabbermouth was stationed in the window, carrying out his punishment - I think he was "in" for something like 20 minutes! - there he stood: "I see a car driving along Van Order Drive. O, there's a bird. There's a woman walking along. Nothing is happening now. The grass is green. The sky is blue...." etc. Thought that made the punishment fit the crime quite nicely! I rather thought you were going to tell us a different tale, when you said she cooped you up in the kneehole of her desk....   Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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