mercalia wrote:not a new word just wonder why it had become popular, emphasising the bodily function that goes on there - EATERY what next start calling loos or toilets shitterys or pisserys?
As I am quite refined, I would prefer "defecatery" and micturatery".
What should we call the hankerchief? "Snotteratery" is too confusing. Is it one or is not one?
Cugel
After learning Welsh you could modernise Esperanto
Entertainer, juvenile, curmudgeon, PoB, 30120 Cycling-of course, but it is far better on a Gillott We love safety cameras, we hate bullies
A break is a breakaway group in a massed-start cycle race Jens Voigt kept breaking away but did not win much, he got lots of awards for "most aggressive rider", aggression was rewarded A street was named after him too
Entertainer, juvenile, curmudgeon, PoB, 30120 Cycling-of course, but it is far better on a Gillott We love safety cameras, we hate bullies
gbnz wrote:Quickly reading another thread, I'm not too clear what "breaks" are? I was under the impression that brakes are used to slow / stop a bike?
Breaks are the very poor or non-functioning variety of brakes, so-named as that's what they result in - broken bikes and broken bones.
Cugel
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word means a trifling matter, or a meaningless refrain used in a song.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the changes announced by the PM yesterday were "folderol" - a new one on us, but apparently it means they were showy but useless.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the changes announced by the PM yesterday were "folderol" - a new one on us, but apparently it means they were showy but useless.
yep thats what you are Rees-Mogg
Not new, first occurs 1701. Entirely appropriate to Jake Tree-Frog's eighteenth century shtick.
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It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the changes announced by the PM yesterday were "folderol" - a new one on us, but apparently it means they were showy but useless.
yep thats what you are Rees-Mogg
Not new, first occurs 1701. Entirely appropriate to Jake Tree-Frog's eighteenth century shtick.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, says the changes announced by the PM yesterday were "folderol" - a new one on us, but apparently it means they were showy but useless.
yep thats what you are Rees-Mogg
Not new, first occurs 1701. Entirely appropriate to Jake Tree-Frog's eighteenth century shtick.
according to this forum title the word is new?
I'm not very clear what you are getting at. Shtick may be new, to this forum anyway.
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
anti-anti-semitism - those against anti-semitism anti-anti-anti-semitism . identifies those individuals (anti-anti-semites) who use the ascription of anti-semitism for hidden agendas or political gain
mercalia wrote:anti-anti-semitism - those against anti-semitism anti-anti-anti-semitism . identifies those individuals (anti-anti-semites) who use the ascription of anti-semitism for hidden agendas or political gain
anti-anti-anti-anti-semitism - the anti-anti-semites regarding the anti-anti-anti-semities as covering up anti-semitism
where does it stop? why this whole matter is confusing
It's worse than that. Paradoxia can spread like shingles, from contemplation of these lexicographical cogitations! For example:
I am anti the antis and can't tolerate the intolerant. Gawd!
Cugel the confused and confounded
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes