more words for you
chalm- to chew or nibble into small pieces. Books and papers are often chalmed by mice, if they can get at them. The letter l is dropped in pronunciation.
-Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830.
lungeous- Ill tempered; quarrelsome; irritable. English provincialism.
-T. Ellwood Zell's Popular Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Language, 1871.
februation- Purification.
-Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c.1850.
anteloquy- A preface, or the first... turn in speaking; also, a term which stage players use, by them called their "cue."
-Thomas Blount's Glossographia, 1656.
pediluvium- A sort of bath for the feet.
-Stephen Blanchard's Physical Dictionary, 1702.
Medieval or modern Latin, from pes, foot, and luvium, washing; plural, pediluvia; also in anglicized form, pediluvy; [late 1600's-early 1900's].
-Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1909.
sheep dumplings- Sheep manure. Sheep dumplings are used in the home treatment of measles and certain other ailments.
-Vance Randolph, Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech, 1953.
FEAST DAY OF ST. BERNADETTE
a ninteenth-century French patroness of shepherds. Her patronage apparently grew out of an unusual penance she was assigned during a vision- to eat grass as sheep do in order to atone for the world's sins. Eliezer Edwards's Words, Facts and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious Matters (1882) commented on an ambiguous expression, "to bear the bell," which, he wrote, proverbially denoted "one who has achieved some distinction. By some it is thought to alludeto the practice of attaching a bell to the neck of the most corageous sheep in a flock. But a more probable origin is in the customwhich formerly prevailed of giving silver bells as prizes in horseracing, the winer being said to 'bear away the bell.'"
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Sheep dumplings to treat measles?? ewww! lol
yo yo. What's up? have a great one!
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