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Ha!!!!!! tsuwm, your 'blush' has made me laugh outright tonight!
Back to Mrs. B. We need to examine her probable purpose in proposing her lexicon. She read a lot of dictionaries--and she compiled a preposterous bunch from her bigger bunch. I don't believe she was offering a lexicon of bona fide words, but one of often preposterous words.
And, tsuwm and dxb, the faux-Maori word was such a terrific choice, as tsuwm has very perceptibly noted, as the final word. And it is, as tsuwm has also suggested, an ironic final entry in that she chose not to include the third definition 'conclusion.' Mrs. B. was a wit in her own way.
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