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This post has already gone up twice; but, as it's the one on which I worked hardest, and as this blog is always gaining and losing adh... -
Just a brief post as I'm running round the country giving talks (Booka Books in Oswestry tonight). I met a German-speaking lady in Edin...
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Because of all the attention this post is getting, I ought to point out that I was not intending to disclose some outrageous Orwellian con...
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I've been staying in the flat of an American friend and found amongst his books an American-English dictionary . It is a slim volume, a... -
A poop-noddy is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: Sexual intercourse (rare) I don't know about you, dear reader, but I... -
Here is the updated list of the fifty most quoted lines of poetry on the internet, including all the readers' suggestions. We started ... -
If I wish to do an impression of a Chinese chap, I will not allow myself to be hampered by the fact that I don't speak a word of Mandar... -
Pluto was the god of the underworld. He was also the god of wealth. That is why we have plutocracy (government by the wealthy), plutocrats ... -
Back when I was writing The Horologicon , there was one word that I desperately wanted to include. But I couldn't because I didn't ...
I note that 'Wamble Crop'd' also pops up in Mr Franklin's list of terms for drunkenness.
ReplyDeleteAlso, do you think there's a way of defining a Snollygoster without resorting to the phrase 'talknophical assumnacy'?
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This morning I felt a bit wamblecropt, probably as a result of taking off my considering cap and sprunting yesterday evening; but after an episode of uhtceare, I arose and had breakfast while my dog groked. My morning routine was interrupted when I dropped a nurdle on the bathroom floor, and later when I broke an aglet while dressing - but I'm finally ready to go out and face the day. Unfortunately there's no possibility of gongoozling this morning because the weather is too inclement, so maybe I'll go to the office and snudge instead.
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Dana
Overcome by a case of uhtceare this very morning, I wondered if there were a related word for when you wake in the early hours, hear the house settling, but it sounds exactly like someone's leg bone popping as they step, and then lie there listening for the sounds of footfalls coming from someone that shouldn't be there...
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