Brazilian dudeAn inflamed swelling, such as a pimple or pustule.
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Languages rule!
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Let us not forget the other, culinarily more interesting referent,
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which, as is evident from the above, also has a distinct etymology....Any of various large, mostly edible marine snails of the family Buccinidae, having a pointed, spiral shell, especially Buccinum undatum, which is commonly eaten in Europe.
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[Middle English welke, whelke, from Old English weoloc; see wel-[sup]2[/sup] in Indo-European roots.]
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曾记否,到中流击水,浪遏飞舟?
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He was in a class by himself . . .
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I surmise, gailr, that the link BD posted was to the unreflected mind rather more offensive than this one showing these seemingly innocent molluscs. Still, after reading the Columbia Encyclopedia's entry, reproduced infra, on the animal, I'm beginning to wonder if BD's link could really have been moe upsetting to imaginative types. Think of being held down by that «large, muscular foot», while the radula files its way through one's shell....
Henri
Henri
whelk
large marine gastropod snail found in temperate waters. The whelk is sometimes eaten, but when food is plentiful, fishermen frequently use it for bait. Whelks are scavengers and carnivores, equipped with an extensible proboscis, tipped with a filelike radula, with which they bore holes through the shells of crabs and lobsters, and a large, muscular foot with which they hold their victims. The thick-lipped, spiral shell has an uneven surface with many protuberances. The knobbed whelk, the largest species, ranging up to 16 in. (40.6 cm), and the channeled whelk, slightly smaller, are both found south of Cape Cod, Mass. In summer the strings of pale, disk-shaped egg cases are common along the shore. The whelk is sometimes mistakenly called conch. Whelks are classified in the phylum Mollusca, class Gastropoda, order Neogastropoda.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2001-05 Columbia University Press.
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曾记否,到中流击水,浪遏飞舟?
Neither as sinister nor offensive as an extensible proboscis and radula, Henri. It must have been a freudian slip of sorts, and he posted the link to one of his earlier suggested words. Let's just say it seemed "frot" with equal parts peril and humor.
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Reminds me of Kliban's Frued's first slip.
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I beg to differ - Freud's first slip was obviously that he removed from the zaftig young lady in What's on a man's mind....
Henri
Henri
曾记否,到中流击水,浪遏飞舟?
That's a fine pair o' praxes, Henri.
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