― 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
also -- livelong, as in "the livelong day"
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
You can wreak terror as well.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link
(Half Man Half Biscuit- Keeping Two Chevrons Apart)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Suicide is only ever contemplated, never "thought about" or "considered".
― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Quench: Also a blacksmithing term, meaning to plunge the hot item into water (or into captured enemy soldiers, if you're a samurai). Basically refers to applying liquid.
Rack: Racked with guilt/sobs/etc.
Cleave: Biblical! Genesis 2:25: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh".
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:38 (eighteen years 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 (four months ago) link
Could one bide on a bidet?
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 November 2023 17:42 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four months ago) link
So yeah mostly the one set phrase.
Joe Bidin'
― Iris Demented (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 26 November 2023 00:38 (four months ago) link
hither and yonarms akimbo
― henry s, Sunday, 26 November 2023 01:35 (four months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9_XAqUIQAANNSL.jpg
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2023 02:35 (four months ago) link
https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/yon
― How old Cary Grant? (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2023 02:36 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four months ago) link