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Dear Maverick: My aim was to deprive K of any enjoyment in posting here, and from building
up a group of admirers. I just got an e-mail from webmaster@wordsmith.org, giving a temporary
password allegedly requested by me. I made no such request. Can that be another of K's tricks?
I sent webmaster denial that I had requested it.
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>> Called by the natives "Erin," i.e. Eri-innis, or Iar-innis (west island).
Erin is an anglicized form of the Irish word Eireann, which is the genitive version of Eire, the Irish name for Ireland. You see the Irish version in the names of present-day national organizations like Iarnrod Eireann (the Irish railway company) or Bord Luthcleas na hEireann (Irish Athletic Board). Erin is little-used by anyone these days, except perhaps sentimental Irish-American parents (viz. Colleen, Shannon) or aficionados of bad 19th Century poetry.
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Jagger A gentleman; a sportsman. (German, jager, a sportsman.)
Hmmm.... never heard him called that before, although I suppose he is a SIR these days, and some people call it 'sport'.  
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Kenno This was a large rich cheese, made by the women of the family with a great affectation of
secrecy, and was intended for the refreshment of the gossips who were in the house at the "canny
minute" of the birth of a child. Called Ken-no because no one was supposed to know of its existence -
certainly no male being, not excepting the master of the house. After all had eaten their fill on the
auspicious occasion, the rest was divided among the gossips and taken home. The Kenno is supposed to
be a relic of the secret rites of the Bona Dea.
There was a male cheeze and cracker collation at village stores a hundred years ago,
commemorated now only in the brand name of a good Cheddar cheese - Cracker Barrel.
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Kent (Latin, Cantium), the territory of the Kantii or Cantii; Old British, Kant, a corner or headland). In
the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Also the ubiety of a famously endowed young man of limerick fame.
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Ketchup A corruption of the Japanese. Kitjap, a condiment sometimes sold as soy, but not equal to it.
Mr. Brewer is grossly in error in ubiety of origin of ketchup.
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Kick (A). Sixpence. “Two-and-a-kick” = two shillings and sixpence. (Anglo-Saxon, cicel, a bit. In
Jamaica a “bit” = sixpence, and generally it means the smallest silver coin in circulation; thus, in America,
a “bit” is fourpence. We speak of a “threepenny bit.”)
“It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks” (Acts ix. 5; and xxvi. 14.) The proverb occurs in Pindar
(2 Pythian Victories, v. 173), in Æschylos; (Agamemnon, 1,624), in Euripde (Bacchæ, 791), in Terence
(Phormio, i. ii. 27), in Ovid (Tristia, book ii. 15), etc.; but whether the reference is to an ox kicking when
goaded, or a horse when pricked with the rowels of a spur, is not certain. The plural kentra seems to refer
to more than one, and pros kentra cannot refer to a repetition of goad thrusts. Altogether, the rowels of a
spur suit the phrase better than the single point of an ox-goad.
A source of merriment in Sunday School
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Kick the Bucket (To). A bucket is a pulley, and in Norfolk a beam. When pigs are killed, they are hung
by their hind-legs on a bucket or beam, with their heads downwards, and oxen are hauled up by a pulley.
To kick the bucket is to be hung on the balk or bucket by the heels.
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Kickshaws Made dishes, odds and ends, formerly written “kickshose.” (French, quelque chose.)
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Kid (A). A faggot or bundle of firewood. To kid is to bind up faggots. In the parish register of Kneelsal
church there is the following item: “Leading kids to church, 2s. 6d.,” that is, carting faggots to church.
(Welsh, cidys, faggots.)
Kid (A). A young child. A facetious formation from the Anglo-Saxon ci[l]d, a child. The l is often silent,
as in calm, half, golf, etc. At one time fault was pronounced fau't.
Notice Brewer says the "l" in golf is silent.
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