Begat by Bailey's 'comestibles':
Bartleby says:
ADJECTIVE:
1. Ill-tempered; irritable.
2. Chiefly British Somewhat hungry.
ETYMOLOGY: From peck, to eat.
Origin: 1775–85 (Dictionary.com)
-wasn't aware of #1 though. Seems a reach.
Briefly invoked in previous suggestion Puckish (q.v.)
(which was a bit punnish)
Peckish
That's because she's amiss.Actually I was only lobbing a softball to gailr with this entry. Looks like she's not swinging.
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nice changeup.That's because she's amiss.Actually I was only lobbing a softball to gailr with this entry. Looks like she's not swinging.
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Dat's cuz the infield fruit fly rule is in effect.(And you're not even in the grapefruit league.)
As eberntson would say, just fouling one off here...
I just noticed my screen's spell checker (now who put dat dere?) flags the word peckish. It wants to see puckish.
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Ya gotta luff spiel chuckers.I just noticed my screen's spell checker (now who put dat dere?) flags the word peckish. It wants to see puckish.
Back in the WordPerfect days (well, I think it was WP and not even further back in time in the MultiMate epoch), the organization I worked for was known as the Bureau of Data Management and Strategy, or BDMS. Whenever WordPerfect encountered BDMS it suggested BUMS. Quite appropriate, actually, considering most of the managment and many of the employees.
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Ahhh, SpellCheck. I once coordinated catalogs for a major children's wear manufacturer. There were people who scrutinized each fabric and screenprint design to ensure that there was nothing that a hypersensitive, pareidoliac consumer could point to as indecent and fodder for lawsuits or damaging publicity.Ya gotta luff spiel chuckers.I just noticed my screen's spell checker (now who put dat dere?) flags the word peckish. It wants to see puckish.
Back in the WordPerfect days (well, I think it was WP and not even further back in time in the MultiMate epoch), the organization I worked for was known as the Bureau of Data Management and Strategy, or BDMS. Whenever WordPerfect encountered BDMS it suggested BUMS. Quite appropriate, actually, considering most of the managment and many of the employees.
But no one was policing me. Just to be on the safe side I ran SpellCheck upon finishing one season's catalogs with a lot of trendy new terms, such as "scortall" (girls' skirt+shorts+overall bib). I had already accepted a position at another company and was very tempted to defer to Quark's dictionary.
mua ha ha ha ha
-gailr
who carefully monitors SpellCheck
[quote="gailr]-gailr
who carefully monitors SpellCheck[/quote]
yup ya watch them s'pall chekers. 'specially iffn' yer one who can speel wirth banes. I get some doozies.
mark you-know-chimps-can't-spele Bailey
It gets really bad when I'm trying to get up some keyboard speed with ye olde hunt-and-peck method.
who carefully monitors SpellCheck[/quote]
yup ya watch them s'pall chekers. 'specially iffn' yer one who can speel wirth banes. I get some doozies.
mark you-know-chimps-can't-spele Bailey
It gets really bad when I'm trying to get up some keyboard speed with ye olde hunt-and-peck method.
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Picking on a vegetable head is sport?!
Ouch! id's watch...s mi worddies mo' so'd i gettess leez slings & arrows from... why do they call you "sluggo"?
I have always admitted that I am a mere enthusiast and not a professional... although I am in quality assurance by trade, words, grammar, & spelling are left to the Documentation department. Sorry to have offended...
Signed, Vegetable-Head
P.S. Don't anger the foliage it harbors bees, wasps, & spiders... LOL <context: maniacal> bzzzzzzzz!
[quote="sluggo"][quote="gailr"](And you're not even in the grapefruit league.)[/quote]
Dat's cuz the infield fruit fly rule is in effect.
[size=11]As eberntson would say, just fouling one off here...
I just noticed my screen's spell checker (now who put dat dere?) flags the word peckish. It wants to see puckish.[/size][/quote]
I have always admitted that I am a mere enthusiast and not a professional... although I am in quality assurance by trade, words, grammar, & spelling are left to the Documentation department. Sorry to have offended...
Signed, Vegetable-Head
P.S. Don't anger the foliage it harbors bees, wasps, & spiders... LOL <context: maniacal> bzzzzzzzz!
[quote="sluggo"][quote="gailr"](And you're not even in the grapefruit league.)[/quote]
Dat's cuz the infield fruit fly rule is in effect.
[size=11]As eberntson would say, just fouling one off here...
I just noticed my screen's spell checker (now who put dat dere?) flags the word peckish. It wants to see puckish.[/size][/quote]
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Re: Picking on a vegetable head is sport?!
Oddly mine moniker hath more to do with (perceived) sloth than baseball; nevertheless upon this very day I very nearly shagged one such literal foul from one Mr Andruw Jones who belongeth here anyway for his name alone).Ouch! id's watch...s mi worddies mo' so'd i gettess leez slings & arrows from... why do they call you "sluggo"?
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