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Dear Faldage: Go way back and sit down. None of the previous citations of "crib"
fit this usage. Dear ASp, tell him to stop making 'gratuitous' posts. Yuk, yuk.
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without a single work of lexicographical reference beside him other than Mr. Cooper's crib
Today, of course, "crib" is used more broadly to mean anything containing answers that one ought to know without such an aid.
Doesn't seem like a real big jump to me.
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p.90 In quotation from Sam Johnson's Dictionary about the Elephant, Johnson refers
to the beast's "pudicity". Not in my dictionary, nor in American Heritage Dictionary.
Of course, from anatomical word "pudendal" I know what it means. Do you?
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>Of course, from anatomical word "pudendal" I know what it means. Do you?
well then, dr. bill, tell us what it means. (careful, this could be a trick...)
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Dear tsuwm: I am shedding great big tears that you should suggest I might be guilty
of trickery.I can get out of this easiery than I thought. My dictionary does not
have "pudicity" , but, oh happy day, it does have "impudicity"
impudicity
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5Fr impudicit= < LL *impudicitas, for L impudicitia < impudicus < in3, not + pudicus, modest6 immodesty; shamelessness
So "pudicity" means modesty
Sam Johnson's quote said the elephants would not have sex while humans were watching.
It also said something that surprised me. The female lies on her back when receptive.
The missionaries got to them, and encouraged their "pudicity".
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We had posts about variety of lava called "aa". But on p.148 appears:
"The first part's first word - once the four pages devoted to the simple
letter "a" had been accounted for - was the obsolete noun aa meaning
'a stream' or ' a watercourse'."
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aa
Forgive me for jumping on without reading this whole thread, but I've only got a second. aa is indubitably listed as a bona fide word in my American Heritage dictionary, 1992. I haven't checked the 2001 edition, but I'll bet it's there, too.
If I've missed Bill's point, then I'll just delete this when I have more time to read what's gone on...
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Dear WW: Please comment in any way you wish. I like obsolete words almost better
than current ones. I just thought it mentioning.
Now I got one for Fiberbabe: I have read about "retting" flax, "hetchelling" it, but what
in the world is "scutching" it? p.1155 "as a flax plant might stand when divided by the
scutcher."
I can't find a definition, but machinery for the purpose is still made:
"/ Manufacturing :
- Heat-setting, Soft-setting , steam-setting, drying machine for tubular knitted fabrics.
- Inspecting, auto-edge control winding machine, scutcher, slitter, releasing machine, auto double-breadth folding machine.
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bottom of page 177 - describing similar facial adornments of Dr. Minor and Sir James Murray:
".....with thick mustaches, sideburns, and ample buggers' grips
Surely, not as in "let go my ears, I know my business!"
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- autopeotomy In his book The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester supplies medical background to the character Dr Minor's act of autopeotomy, and offers a warning : beware' the renowned bloodsucking Brazilian fishlet known as candiru, which likes to swim up a man's urine stream and lodge in the urethra, with a ring of retrorse spines preventing its removal, one of the very rare circumstances in which doctors will perform the operation known as a peotomy. Dear consuelo: here's your old friend "candiru" again.Read material in URL below: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000519.html
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