― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, you *are* on a Belle and Sebastian mailing list...
― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Teacher: Woe betide the boy who plays football instead of coming into class
Young Billy: Who's this fucking Woby? He's got the right idea!
(or words to that effect)
― Rumpea, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.20six.co.uk/pub/channel26/hale_and_pace2.jpg
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Pétard in French is slang for a joint.
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
"Hoist" was in Shakespeare's time the past participles of a verb "to hoise", which meant what "to hoist" does now: to lift. A petard (see under "peter out" for the etymology) was an explosive charge detonated by a slowly burning fuse. If the petard went off prematurely, then the sapper (military engineer; Shakespeare's "enginer") who planted it would be hurled into the air by the explosion. (Compare "up" in "to blow up".) A modern rendition might be: "It's fun to see the engineer blown up with his own bomb."
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
the only word in the english languaged that means one thing and also its opposite.
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
nah, there's loads
― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
When is it ever used not in conjunction with "thurst" ?
― JTS, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Pyrrhic is a proper name (relating to Pyrrhus), and so I'm not sure it qualifies.
I'll add the sense of "brand" used in "brand [spanking] new".
For "stark naked", see also "stark raving".
I'm kinda with Archel in this, in that I use many of these words in other contexts, but Martin will tsk me as well I suspect.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
also used with contrast
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.crru.org.uk/images/porpoise_callout.jpg
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
when it's used in conjunction with 'desire'?
I love autoantonyms!
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lurky McLurk, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
is "hew and cry," innit?
― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
caboodle
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:35 (six months ago) link
idk Dr Dre had "Britches Ain't Shit"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:43 (six months ago) link
my parents used to use britches as a simple synonym for pants/trousers ie get on your britches
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:15 (six months ago) link
beck
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:23 (six months ago) link
^
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 23:06 (six months ago) link
Soz but
beck1/bɛk/nounNORTHERN ENGLISHa stream
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 23:43 (six months ago) link
linguists call these fossil words, related and fun is the cranberry morpheme
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:06 (six months ago) link
Britches always makes me think of Washington, DC clothing retailer Britches Great Outdoors, which started out as a store that sold slacks.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:27 (six months ago) link
I suspect this may be US-specific (i.e., the word is used more broadly elsewhere), but bow about "britches" as in what you get too big for?
I think "britches" is American? It's breeches in England and breeks in Scotland.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:39 (six months ago) link
... breeks is much more commonly used than breeches.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:40 (six months ago) link
breeches is often the spelling in English, especially older prose, but i still think it's pronounced "britches"
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:41 (six months ago) link
Yes, could be.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:44 (six months ago) link
Maybe not by Genesis P-Orridge though.
https://boingboing.net/2009/04/17/genesis-p-orridges-c.html/amp
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 12:46 (six months ago) link
Lol I mean he could be making a play on the word without strictly thinking it's pronounced that way, but on the other hand it's one of those words that you're likely to have seen written down and never heard spoken aloud, I guess anybody who reads books much has a few of those
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 15:17 (six months ago) link
Peace, man: Britches (the store) has had an interesting resurgence.
https://warthog.vip/
It was a staple of my preppy-ass youth. People in my personal orbit treasure memories of it. I haven't been back (because I don't dress that way anymore) but it is there if you want it.
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:10 (six months ago) link
Dion Dublin, for the BBC today:
Brighton have played some really good stuff they never panic and always buy their time.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 25 November 2023 16:36 (six months ago) link
The dude bides
― Oh I believe in Yetis' Day (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 November 2023 16:56 (six months ago) link
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bide-a-wee
(Scottish for wait a while)
― koogs, Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:15 (six months ago) link
https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/720a095c-3ae2-41a9-8bfe-490b671980d5/IMG_5287.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:16 (six months ago) link
yeah, 'wait' as in 'stay'. i think 1 in 3 Scottish b&bs are called bide-a-wee
― koogs, Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:37 (six months ago) link
Could one bide on a bidet?
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:42 (six months ago) link
Yes, there are parts of Scotland where the question, "Where do you bide?" will be asked.
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 November 2023 18:57 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QTu8ks9X9M
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 November 2023 22:25 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbXSXvt2tb0
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 November 2023 22:28 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t-zC0e1Tgc
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 November 2023 22:30 (six months ago) link
So yeah mostly the one set phrase.
Joe Bidin'
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 November 2023 00:38 (six months ago) link
hither and yonarms akimbo
― henry s, Sunday, 26 November 2023 01:35 (six months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9_XAqUIQAANNSL.jpg
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2023 02:35 (six months ago) link
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/yon
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2023 02:36 (six months ago) link
He, I almost linked the entry for “bide” earlier.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:16 (six months ago) link
Heh
I have an app for students, Scots ABC. It has a random word generator, from which I just learned the word “oorie.”
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:20 (six months ago) link
Doesn’t have any of the example sentences though, for one thing.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:32 (six months ago) link
auk (auk and style)― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:42 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:42 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Turns out "auk and style" doesn't exist as a saying at all, I'd heard "dressed in auk and style" but maybe it was really "dressing up in style" or something. I do know of one song where I'd misheard the latter for the former, but I'm sure my hearing predates it.
Unless, y'know, you know?
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 November 2023 09:50 (six months ago) link