barking-iron - A pistol. (from Richard Thornton's American Glossary, 1912)
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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:40 PM
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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:55 PM
Lady Kasey, on 04 July 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:
barking-iron - A pistol. (from Richard Thornton's American Glossary, 1912)
I like that, I'll add our own 18th century word for pistols - bull dogs!
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 04:35 PM
squiddled - Cheated; wheedled. (from James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaid and Provincial Words, 1855)
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 04:38 PM
Radio Sports Commentator:
"There was a stramash in the penalty-box, which ended in handbags-at-dawn. Both centre-halfs saw red."
Stramash: A stramash is a chiefly Scottish word for a disturbance, a noisy racket, or a crash.
(Edit for dramatic license)
"There was a stramash in the penalty-box, which ended in handbags-at-dawn. Both centre-halfs saw red."
Stramash: A stramash is a chiefly Scottish word for a disturbance, a noisy racket, or a crash.
(Edit for dramatic license)
Edited by Eldorado, 05 July 2012 - 04:43 PM.
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 05:07 PM
Eldorado, on 26 June 2012 - 05:19 PM, said:
Excuse me while I circumambulate.
Magniloquent - using high-flown or bombastic language.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 01:19 PM
beneplaciture - Choice. (from John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850)
Hang-choice, the position of a person who is compelled to choose between two evils. Scotch. (from William Whitney's Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889)
Hang-choice, the position of a person who is compelled to choose between two evils. Scotch. (from William Whitney's Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1889)
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"...it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
"...it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 12:32 PM
From an old Tony Hancock show... (forgive me if I don't get it word perfect)...
Man: "Maybe the elevator will move if you get out!"
Tony: "Are you implying that I'm portly?"
Portly - comfortably stout, tubby, fat. (lol)
Man: "Maybe the elevator will move if you get out!"
Tony: "Are you implying that I'm portly?"
Portly - comfortably stout, tubby, fat. (lol)
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 12:58 PM
Eldorado, on 10 July 2012 - 12:32 PM, said:
From an old Tony Hancock show... (forgive me if I don't get it word perfect)...
Man: "Maybe the elevator will move if you get out!"
Tony: "Are you implying that I'm portly?"
Portly - comfortably stout, tubby, fat. (lol)
Man: "Maybe the elevator will move if you get out!"
Tony: "Are you implying that I'm portly?"
Portly - comfortably stout, tubby, fat. (lol)
Now I have to watch some Hancock episodes when I get in; I think a Sid one will do.
I love stout; also corpulent, which means the same thing.
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 01:01 PM
schizoidwoman, on 10 July 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:
Now I have to watch some Hancock episodes when I get in; I think a Sid one will do.
I love stout; also corpulent, which means the same thing.
I love stout; also corpulent, which means the same thing.
Love Sid & Tony.. my Dad laughed like Sid and had same kinda jovial face.
(remember Bless This House?)
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 01:18 PM
Few people were as good at using "Splediferous English" in a movie as WC Fields...
From the movie "My Little Chickadee" with WC Fields and Mae West:
Cuthbert J. Twillie: May I present my card?
Flower Belle Lee: 'Novelties and Notions.' What kind of notions you got?
Cuthbert J. Twillie: You'd be surprised. Some are old, some are new. Whom have I the honor of addressing, m'lady?
Flower Belle Lee: Mmm, they call me Flower Belle.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Flower Belle, what a euphonious appellation. Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes.
Flower Belle Lee: You're kinda cute yourself.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Thank you. I never argue with a lady.
Flower Belle Lee: Smart boy.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Tell me, prairie flower, can you give me the inside info on yon damsel with the hothouse cognomen?
Mrs Gideon: Do you mean Miss Flower Belle Lee?
Cuthbert J. Twillie: I don't mean some woman out in China.
Mrs Gideon: Well! I'm afraid I can't say anything good about her.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: I can see what's good. Tell me the rest
Mrs Gideon: Was that chap dragging you across the prairie a full-blooded Indian?
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Ah, quite the antithesis. He's very anemic
Edit to add:
Cuthbert J. Twillie: I've been worried about you, my little peachfuzz. Have you been loitering somewhere?
Flower Belle Lee: I've been learning things.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Unnecessary! You are the epitome of erudition... a double superlative. Can you handle it?
Flower Belle Lee: Yeah, and I can kick it around, too.
From the movie "My Little Chickadee" with WC Fields and Mae West:
Cuthbert J. Twillie: May I present my card?
Flower Belle Lee: 'Novelties and Notions.' What kind of notions you got?
Cuthbert J. Twillie: You'd be surprised. Some are old, some are new. Whom have I the honor of addressing, m'lady?
Flower Belle Lee: Mmm, they call me Flower Belle.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Flower Belle, what a euphonious appellation. Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes.
Flower Belle Lee: You're kinda cute yourself.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Thank you. I never argue with a lady.
Flower Belle Lee: Smart boy.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Tell me, prairie flower, can you give me the inside info on yon damsel with the hothouse cognomen?
Mrs Gideon: Do you mean Miss Flower Belle Lee?
Cuthbert J. Twillie: I don't mean some woman out in China.
Mrs Gideon: Well! I'm afraid I can't say anything good about her.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: I can see what's good. Tell me the rest
Mrs Gideon: Was that chap dragging you across the prairie a full-blooded Indian?
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Ah, quite the antithesis. He's very anemic
Edit to add:
Cuthbert J. Twillie: I've been worried about you, my little peachfuzz. Have you been loitering somewhere?
Flower Belle Lee: I've been learning things.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Unnecessary! You are the epitome of erudition... a double superlative. Can you handle it?
Flower Belle Lee: Yeah, and I can kick it around, too.
Edited by Taun, 10 July 2012 - 01:22 PM.
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 03:28 PM
Eldorado, on 10 July 2012 - 01:01 PM, said:
Love Sid & Tony.. my Dad laughed like Sid and had same kinda jovial face. (remember Bless This House?)
(remember Bless This House?)Bless This House... that's one for a Sunday afternoon with toast and tea.
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 04:04 PM
quadrageminus - Quadrageminus day, the fortieth day of fever; the latest period an acute disease was supposed capable of reaching. (from John Redman Coxe's Philadelphia Medical Dictionary, 1817)
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Posted 16 July 2012 - 03:44 PM
"And in the resulting conflagration the bothy burnt down."
Why say "big fire" when you can say "conflagration"?
Why say "big fire" when you can say "conflagration"?
Edited by Eldorado, 16 July 2012 - 03:45 PM.
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Posted 16 July 2012 - 05:04 PM
Eldorado, on 16 July 2012 - 03:44 PM, said:
"And in the resulting conflagration the bothy burnt down."
Why say "big fire" when you can say "conflagration"?
Why say "big fire" when you can say "conflagration"?
Call the firedrakes and get it extinguished!
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
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Posted 16 July 2012 - 05:42 PM
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Prettier words were never written imo.
Prettier words were never written imo.
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