random vocabulophilia
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freckles_and_doubtWords With Which To Confuse An Evil Landlord: graunch. To damage, somewhat wholesalely, as in "Gosh, those death knights are really graunching your cavaliers, aren't they?" Used often by my father in the context of falconry. Apparently of British dialect origin. Anyone else actually familiar with this word? or is it one of the more obscure bits of Britishness inflicting my colonial family?
Expressions Which Have Sadly Fallen Into Disuse: "Aw, nerts!" This is a slightly more British schoolboy version of "Bollocks", with an additional undertone of finger-pointing derision. Suggested contexts for its use: to depress pretension, thusly:
EXTEMP: ... self-consciousness postmodernism genre blah blah ...
ONLOOKER: Aw, nerts!
I am having an Irritating Day, TM. Wish me luck.
Expressions Which Have Sadly Fallen Into Disuse: "Aw, nerts!" This is a slightly more British schoolboy version of "Bollocks", with an additional undertone of finger-pointing derision. Suggested contexts for its use: to depress pretension, thusly:
EXTEMP: ... self-consciousness postmodernism genre blah blah ...
ONLOOKER: Aw, nerts!
I am having an Irritating Day, TM. Wish me luck.
