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- Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:16 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: quarters
- Replies: 1
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quarters
We are all familiar with the sense of 'quarters' being fourth parts of something. But how do we relate this to its use as a place in which something happens. As in 'sleeping quarters', 'battle quarters', 'headquarters', 'close quarters', and the verbal use to quarter meaning to put people in to livi...
- Sat May 15, 2010 6:52 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Word suggestion COB
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4455
Word suggestion COB
I would like to suggest the word COB . I have so far found seventeen nouns and two verbs to which this simple little three letter word attaches. To wit :- A male swan ; a short stout horse; a great man; a hazel nut; a round topped loaf of bread; a round piece of coal; a testicle; an apple dumpling; ...
- Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:26 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Word suggestion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8468
Word suggestion
It appears that the word "bootleg" has not yet been mooted for treatment. We all know roughly what it means - contraband transport of a controlled pleasurable substance usually alcoholic. Hiding something in a boot looks fairly obvious, but boots of a size appropriate ? Hardly since the Pi...
- Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: TANTALIZE
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6184
Also descended from the same tantalizing root is the term for a , usually antique, often valuable, lockable portable small rack for bottles of spirits or fortified wine. A TANTALUS could be brought to the table for the gentlemen diners to enjoy a few snifters or nips with their cigars after the ladi...
- Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:34 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SNOG
- Replies: 12
- Views: 35747
My remembrance of 'snogging', the word and the activity, dates back to the 1940's in the UK and then it meant what the US calls 'petting' - a long way short of the full monte. It went on between fourteen to sixteen year olds and was an experimental introduction to the more serious event later. Later...