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Thursday, 24 January 2008, 9:03 AM

"Womblety-cropt"

From Jeffrey Kacirk's "Forgotten English" calendar this year:

The indisposition of a drunkard after a debauch.
-- James Hallwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provicial Words (1855)

What a wonderful word. (And, no, there's no particular meaning to my choosing it today. :-) )

Filed under :: Writing and Language

Thursday, 24 January 2008, 4:39 PM

Quoth dust ...

Um, what's a womblety that it's been cut off?

Thursday, 24 January 2008, 5:13 PM

Quoth *** Dave ...

Man, that's some *serious* debauchery ...

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