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whelk
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:22 pm
by Brazilian dude
An inflamed swelling, such as a pimple or pustule.
Brazilian dude
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:04 pm
by M. Henri Day
Let us not forget the other, culinarily more interesting referent,
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.]
which, as is evident from the above, also has a distinct etymology....
Henri
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:37 pm
by Stargzer
Not to be confused with the late
Lawrence . . .
"And a one and a two . . ."
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:40 pm
by M. Henri Day
Don't know in which of the two categories you would care to place him, Larry....
Henri
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:25 pm
by Stargzer
He was in a
class by himself . . .
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:09 am
by gailr
B_dude: I've read your post before but ignored the link as I knew the word. Today I clicked on it, and, well, you might want to edit it. Unless you are offering social commentary on how one might
acquire said inflammations...
gailr
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:16 am
by Brazilian dude
Hahahaha, edited.
Brazilian dude
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:14 pm
by M. Henri Day
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
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.
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:25 pm
by gailr
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.
gailr
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:45 pm
by M. Henri Day
When I was growing up, gailr - or at least attempting to do so - girls still wore articles like slips. The Freudian version was the one I liked best....
Henri
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:59 pm
by gailr
Reminds me of Kliban's
Frued's first slip.
-gailr
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:34 pm
by Stargzer
Oy vey!
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:20 am
by M. Henri Day
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
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:31 pm
by gailr
That's a fine
pair o' praxes, Henri.
-gailr
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:18 pm
by M. Henri Day
Indeed !...
Henri