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[[deleted user]]

em..it was actually YOU Carol wot started it! sooo keep it goin gal..

[Carol]

I know just wanted to see who was awake. Quite close to a brook with a really good book.

[Savvy]

Sitting by a waterfall....nothing on my mind at all!

[[deleted user]]

Sleeping by the stream..brings the sweeter dream.

[Savvy]

hmmmmmmm???...maybe we need a new "rhyme a line" thread???

[[deleted user]]

YAY!!!! start it SUZ...

[Savvy]

OKAY...will do!
back to....
Word for the day

DONSIE...comes from Scottish...unlucky or slightly ill...used in the states still in the south

[[deleted user]]

Peeky.

[Ruth]

Susanne wrote: "OKAY...will do!
back to....
Word for the day

DONSIE...comes from Scottish...unlucky or slightly ill...used in the states still in the south"

I was listening to that same program today, Susanne. I'd never heard the word before either.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Does it relate to Donnybrook? No....that was Irish wasn't it?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Main Entry: don·sie
Variant(s): or don·sy \ˈdän(t)-sē\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Scottish Gaelic donas evil, harm + English -ie
Date: 1720
1 dialect British : unlucky
2 Scottish a : restive b : saucy
3 chiefly northern Midland : slightly ill

[[deleted user]]

Waa??

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I like the Scottish meaning better.....saucy!

[Ken, Moderator]

From Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Act I, Lord Capulet to Tybalt:

"You are a saucy boy!"

[Savvy]

"Don't be saucy with me Bearnaise..."

From the classic Mel Brooks film "History of the World Part 1"

[[deleted user]]

ETHEREAL meaning..Joanie
(my ethereal disposition to match my new pic) hehehe

[Carol]

Like a Specter

[Ken, Moderator]

Is that you on the quad outside college? You look at bit peaked.

[[deleted user]]

Specter? Cheers Carol, you say the nicest things..I'll reciprocate accordingly.

NE, peaked? are you talking to me or Carol?

[Ken, Moderator]

Um... myself, actually.

[David]

I am come all over peckish

peckish

[Ken, Moderator]

Wonder if peckish and peaked came over on the same boat?

[Carol]

I am feeling right peckish myself.


diorama

[David]

I'm feeling Anglo-Indian.

Memsahib.

[Savvy]

David me thinks is a bit of a japer! :-)

JAPE –verb (used without object) 1. to jest; joke; gibe.

–verb (used with object) 2. to mock or make fun of.

–noun 3. a joke; jest; quip.
4. a trick or practical joke.


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Origin:
1300–50; ME japen, perh. < OF jap(p)er to bark, of imit. orig.

Related forms:

japer, noun
jap⋅er⋅y, noun
jap⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

[David]

tiffin

More East Indian English: "lunch, or a light meal"

[Carol]

Chaat-Indo-Pakistani snack

[Robyn]

The Japanese version apparently is "bento" - the Japanese word for lunchbox, in the Korean side of the world it's called dosirak (pronounced as do-shi-rak).

Also known in English as "Keeping warm lunch box" - the equivalent of the Tiffan box:...

[David]

psychopomp

A divinity who escorts the souls of the deceased to the underworld. More generally, one who mediates between the conscious world and the unconscious.

The Aztec god Huitzilopochtli, "Hummingbird of the Left," was, among other things, a psychopomp.

[Carol]

Shirley Mac Clain is channeling Huitzilopochtli.

[David]

Huitz needed constant human sacrifices.

Shirley's a goofball, but a great performer.

crystal ship

[Carol]

THE DOORS & JIM MORRISON

[Ken, Moderator]

I don't know why, but twice I read David's WOTD as "psychopoop." Very interesting, that would've been. Freud especially would've been very keen on why poop is psycho.

[David]

To paraphrase an old saying, "If poop were money, the poor would be born without sphincters."

[Robyn]

rastaquouere

"dashing but untrustworthy foreigner,"

[Carol]

Zorba the Greek was no Dandy.,but he certainly could do a mean Kalamatianos.

[David]

Also a χασαποσερβικο (hasaposerviko), "Serbian butchers' dance."

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

La Fricasee des hommes (French grape-squashing dance)

[Ken, Moderator]

XENOPHOBIA (n.) -- fear of furriners (as opposed to furriers)

[David]

Ahh, Fremndenfeindlichkeit.

One of those great German compound words.

[Robyn]

That would be the study of suitcases?

http://www.43things.com/things/view/2...

Lewis Carroll

[Robyn]

Yes :) hence "Lewis Carroll" the master portmantologist...

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

‘Slithy’ --> ‘lithe and slimy’...
‘Mimsy’ --> ‘flimsy and miserable’...

I love them. Mind you, I am quite good at doing it by accident - I often introduced my Pastor and his wife as Masil and Barion.

Hmmm, Writing Desk --> raven

[Ruth]

And I consistently read the Yew Norker.

[Robyn]

Mind your 'P's and 'Q's - 'Y's and 'N's

[David]

wormy little sweasel

[Tyler]

Tuesday's WFTD: Elide

It means to omit, slur over (in speech), strike out, abridge or annul.

What a versatile word. And it rhymes with glide and slide. It's nice to imagine you can "elide" with the same grace with which you glide and slide.

[Ruth]

Aha! That's a reading word for me. I thought it rhymed with screed and read.

[Tyler]

The Latin root "laedere" certainly suggests that, but the dictionaries give us only a long "i".

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I wonder if the second meaning arose from the first (sailors exchanging the day's gossip around the scuttlebutt)? I bet it did.....I only ever knew the second meaning....we use it quite a lot over here.

[Robyn]

Ah - water cooler gossip!