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Words We Don't Use
- LoveHistory
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- Rowan
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- Interest in HF: I love history, but it's boring in school. Historical fiction brings it alive for me.
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[quote=""LoveHistory""]Roget is famous for his discovery of the world's most wordy dinosaur. [/quote]
This is my status for the day on FB and Gmail:
Happy Birthday Peter Mark Roget! Your influence on language has been immeasurable, bottomless, boundless, countless, endless, illimitable, extensive, indefinite, inestimable, infinite, unfathomable, unlimited, unmeasurable AND vast.
This is my status for the day on FB and Gmail:
Happy Birthday Peter Mark Roget! Your influence on language has been immeasurable, bottomless, boundless, countless, endless, illimitable, extensive, indefinite, inestimable, infinite, unfathomable, unlimited, unmeasurable AND vast.
- Madeleine
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- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
[quote=""Alisha Marie Klapheke""]I read a scene about bundling in Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches. It's rather sexy. I also saw a bundling scene in the movie The Patriot with Mel Gibson (eye roll) and the sadly now deceased Heath Ledger. Very cute one there.
I was dashelled today. A tornado came winding its nasty way down my road. I'm fine. Just a bit dashelled. : )[/quote]
I've just read this scene and yes it's quite sexy They also mention that bundling was popular with the Dutch and Amish people, and talk about the boards too, which must have been a bit uncomfortable!
I was dashelled today. A tornado came winding its nasty way down my road. I'm fine. Just a bit dashelled. : )[/quote]
I've just read this scene and yes it's quite sexy They also mention that bundling was popular with the Dutch and Amish people, and talk about the boards too, which must have been a bit uncomfortable!
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
- Rowan
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green-sickness - A disease incident to virgins. ~ Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, 1806.
A disease in which the person has a sickly paleness, with a green tinge of the complexion, chiefly confined to unmarried females. ~ James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884
mallemarocking - The visiting and carousing of seamen in the Greenland ships. ~ William Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book, 1867
Formed on Dutch mallemarok, a foolish woman, tomboy; from mal, foolish, and marok, adaptation of French marotte, [an] "object of foolish affection." ~ Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
out-pick-pick - The kind of pick-pick [a fish from whose bones the flesh is easily picked] that is caught further out to sea than the ordinary one. ~ Alan Ross' Pitcairnese Language, 1964
A disease in which the person has a sickly paleness, with a green tinge of the complexion, chiefly confined to unmarried females. ~ James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884
mallemarocking - The visiting and carousing of seamen in the Greenland ships. ~ William Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book, 1867
Formed on Dutch mallemarok, a foolish woman, tomboy; from mal, foolish, and marok, adaptation of French marotte, [an] "object of foolish affection." ~ Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
out-pick-pick - The kind of pick-pick [a fish from whose bones the flesh is easily picked] that is caught further out to sea than the ordinary one. ~ Alan Ross' Pitcairnese Language, 1964
- Madeleine
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[quote=""Rowan""]green-sickness - A disease incident to virgins. ~ Noah Webster's Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, 1806.
A disease in which the person has a sickly paleness, with a green tinge of the complexion, chiefly confined to unmarried females. ~ James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884[/quote]
I'm intrigued - jealousy maybe?!
A disease in which the person has a sickly paleness, with a green tinge of the complexion, chiefly confined to unmarried females. ~ James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884[/quote]
I'm intrigued - jealousy maybe?!
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
- LoveHistory
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- Kveto from Prague
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[quote=""Rowan""]This is my status for the day on FB and Gmail:
Happy Birthday Peter Mark Roget! Your influence on language has been immeasurable, bottomless, boundless, countless, endless, illimitable, extensive, indefinite, inestimable, infinite, unfathomable, unlimited, unmeasurable AND vast. [/quote]
that reminds me. Does anybody know another word for thesaurus?
Happy Birthday Peter Mark Roget! Your influence on language has been immeasurable, bottomless, boundless, countless, endless, illimitable, extensive, indefinite, inestimable, infinite, unfathomable, unlimited, unmeasurable AND vast. [/quote]
that reminds me. Does anybody know another word for thesaurus?