That reminded me of the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives; John Boehner with a similar form of pronunciation?ÿ
Knocked up.
I was familiar with the term as per the movie of the same name, but was surprised a long while back to learn of the meaning being to waken one by knocking them up.?ÿ Was listening to an audiobook of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock says something to the effect of being knocked up so late at night.
OMG!?ÿ I did not realize my term would bring out the auto-censor!?ÿ It started with a bon and ended in an er, but requires a long o sound.
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@dougie?ÿ
As I recall, there was a bay sound ahead of the nur sound.
A few years ago, I was surprised to be informed that, just as there is the word "uncouth", there is also the word "couth".
I've been known to tell people who ask what I thought of a certain performance or show that I was neither overwhelmed or underwhelmed, merely whelmed.?ÿ That will put odd looks on their faces as they attempt to understand what I meant.?ÿ Seriously, one should be whelmed prior to moving on to being overwhelmed.?ÿ Right?
You don't hear much about the gruntled employees, either. Just the disgruntled ones.
Correct.
Five of the 20.?ÿ Aglet is my favorite as I learned that term solving a crossword puzzles many years ago.?ÿ It has probably appeared 500 times in crossword puzzles I have worked.?ÿ In fact, I used that term earlier in the day yesterday, prior to Richard's post.?ÿ My daughter took her young son to a petting zoo yesterday.?ÿ While she was distracted by other things, a little pygmy goat was munching on one of her shoe laces.?ÿ She reported the goat had eaten the plastic tip off of her shoe lace.?ÿ I told her that was an aglet.?ÿ A couple of hours later, Richard posted the list of odd terms, so I passed that along to her as proof of my great knowledge of generally worthless information.
Kissing cousins probably came from the expression kith an' kin, which refers to your land and your family.
@holy-cow I had to stop reading when it hit me that "fooling around" in, one way anyway, could very well be associated with a form of "lolly" gagging...?ÿ Thanks.?ÿ Now I doubt I'll ever be able to have that word come to mind without thinking about that...
fare-thee-well
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I wouldn't wanna be in his shoes for his socks.
Heavens-to-Betsy!
