Tag: word
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crumpie
There’s a pretty good reason you’ve never heard the word “crumpie.” Read.
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why a Dutchman
When I was just a wee lad and I did something I shouldn’t have done, my grandmother Cleo would scold me by saying something that sounded like, “Nix kommer rouse in the Dutchman’s house!” My mother and my uncle confirm that she said the same to them, and that the meaning was clearly, “don’t do Read.
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that foreign language English
I’ve got a copy of the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge on a shelf next to my desk at home, which I pull down and leaf through if, for instance, I’m in the middle of writing some drivel when my laptop decides it’s time to update the software without asking me. Read.
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persiflage
PERSIFLAGE (PER suh flazh) from the French persifler, “to banter” Light banter; idle, bantering talk; a frivolous style of treating a subject – The New Century Dictionary 1927 A light, flippant style – Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary 1942 852. RIDICULE, derision, irrision, raillery, mockery, banter, persiflage, bandinage, twit, chaff; quiz, quizzing etc. v.: Read.
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