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bedswerver (bed-SWUR-vuhr) nounQuote:"I knew that she was a bedswerver, aiming to sweep out from her hubby's cot into mine."
Richard Flanagan; Gould's Book of Fish; Grove Press; 2002.
Hello, ginger!
Although I'm still sweorfan between Redwood Range and Pacific Ocean coastline, I must jump in on this one for just this once.
' Swerver ' is certainly directly related to the Dutch word zwerver, but the Dutch did not invent nor ever use the word ' bedzwerver'. (the practice of course is not unknown) I would put the responsability for this word fully to the Anglo-Saxons.
I tried the find something about the book Anu quotes from, but found nul. What would Gould' s fishes have to do with this so called 'bedswerver'?
A Fish Called Wanda?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted bedswerver ginger 09/07/07 12:34 PM Re: bedswerver Jackie 09/07/07 12:58 PM Re: bedswerver zmjezhd 09/07/07 02:09 PM Re: bedswerver Jackie 09/08/07 01:44 AM Re: bedswerver zmjezhd 09/08/07 02:12 AM Re: bedswerver Jackie 09/08/07 01:15 PM Re: bedswerver dalehileman 09/08/07 04:33 PM Re: bedswerver BranShea 09/09/07 06:47 AM
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