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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 5:18:26 GMT -5
Not peppermint.....not spearmint...........
Varmint
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Post by Cramptholomew on Feb 21, 2019 12:15:06 GMT -5
Not peppermint.....not spearmint........... Varmint My grandmother used to carry Velamints in her bag.  |
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Post by slowroll on Feb 21, 2019 13:33:44 GMT -5
Not peppermint.....not spearmint........... Varmint I usually see varmints thru a scope. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 14:10:34 GMT -5
Not peppermint.....not spearmint........... Varmint My grandmother used to carry Velamints in her bag. That was a high quality mint, I enjoyed them as well👌👍👍 |
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Post by exchef on Feb 22, 2019 11:20:16 GMT -5
facetious
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Post by slowroll on Feb 22, 2019 18:35:20 GMT -5
One that I use whenever the chance arises is "fortnight". My favorite euphemism for a slow race car used to be "it only makes about 20 furlongs per fortnight."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 18:40:54 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 9:24:39 GMT -5
A word used often in the U.K. but not so much in the States...........
relegation
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Post by slowroll on Feb 23, 2019 12:29:49 GMT -5
speaking of Britishisms, my favorite is the old term for unmitigated BS -- codswallop.
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Post by Legend Lover on Feb 23, 2019 12:32:49 GMT -5
speaking of Britishisms, my favorite is the old term for unmitigated BS -- codswallop. still well in use over here. |
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Post by slowroll on Feb 23, 2019 12:39:09 GMT -5
speaking of Britishisms, my favorite is the old term for unmitigated BS -- codswallop. still well in use over here. And by me, too. |
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Post by Darin on Feb 23, 2019 17:28:39 GMT -5
Wonky
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 18:13:05 GMT -5
I use Wonky too. It is a great catchall. British origin, if I recal correctly.
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Post by Cramptholomew on Feb 23, 2019 18:14:41 GMT -5
Cattywompus
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 18:36:39 GMT -5
Panther traps. A short phrase I picked up long ago and can't recall the specific definition, but I will use it when no other word or explanation fits.
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Post by cgvt on Feb 23, 2019 18:38:11 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 19:35:36 GMT -5
concubine
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Post by trailboss on Feb 23, 2019 20:59:44 GMT -5
Whippersnapper! I use it often. I just told the wife "this is the first time I have ever seen Perry and Paul flummoxed" watching Perry Mason...she said...what?  |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 23, 2019 21:22:06 GMT -5
Discriminating has gotten a bad rap also.
My sister died last November, as we went over her life story as the pastor prepared for her service, I mentioned that she had discriminating taste towards dating prior to meeting her husband that she married in 1976...she was nobody's fool for a guy wanting to get "lucky."
Her and her husband raised a second family after their two children were reared...my sis and her husband are white, they adopted five black kids, all came from the same black mother that was a crack addict, the children, and had four different fathers.
As soon as I spoke them words, it was obvious that I had done the equivalent of ripping out a loud one in a quiet church service. I quickly perceived what happened and gave a quick lesson to the kids, and the pastor also confirmed my usage of the word as appropriate.
I prefer that words be used in the original context.....even when you have to inform the young un's or misinformed...they are better for it if you do.
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Post by Mac on Feb 24, 2019 11:12:31 GMT -5
Sorry to hear of your loss. May your sister r.i.p.. Where I live, the word "discriminating" means good taste, and has nothing to do with "discrimination" of race. A word used often in the U.K. but not so much in the States........... relegation NBC carries many (most?) EPL games on the telly, so "Relegation Zone" is heard a lot among football (soccer) fans. How about "disingenuous"? "Fractious"? |
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Post by NJDan on Feb 24, 2019 11:24:11 GMT -5
On of my favorite sources of obscure language is the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, available on Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402A typical entry: HUNT'S DOG. He is like Hunt's dog, will neither go to church nor stay at home. One Hunt, a labouring man at a small town in Shropshire, kept a mastiff, who on being shut up on Sundays, whilst his master went to church, howled so terribly as to disturb the whole village; wherefore his master resolved to take him to church with him: but when he came to the church door, the dog having perhaps formerly been whipped out by the sexton, refused to enter; whereupon Hunt exclaimed loudly against his dog's obstinacy, who would neither go to church nor stay at home. This shortly became a bye-word for discontented and whimsical persons. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 15:01:30 GMT -5
Condom....as in prophylactic.....not Condominium........I don’t want to be a great grandfather yet!!! I have enough worries right now!
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Post by sablebrush52 on Feb 24, 2019 15:25:46 GMT -5
Sitting in the Catbird seat - yeah, I know it's not a word, but it's an elegant old phrase.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 24, 2019 15:27:25 GMT -5
Same here, I think that is the case with anyone over 40... my three kids are in their 30’s, and they all are used to hearing it in context.
Having said that, I think there is a pretty good percentage of the population has never heard it in a positive sense.
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