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damoge
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corramorblies

Postby damoge » Sun Jun 26, 2016 11:33 pm

Does any one recognize this word?
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Re: corramorblies

Postby Slava » Mon Jun 27, 2016 4:17 pm

Not I. It doesn't show up on any of three search engines I tried, either. Not even this one use of yours. Odd, that.
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Re: corramorblies

Postby damoge » Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:05 am

I'm not sure of the spelling, that was a guess. My aunts who lived in Maine, used this to mean some strange, awful but not potentially fatal, malaise.
"ooooh, I didn't want to get up this morning. I'd rather stood in bed. I've got the corramorblies."
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