Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Maggot
Whimsy; caprice; odd fancy.
She pricked his maggot, and touched him in the tender point; then he broke out into violent passion.
-Arbuthnot
She pricked his maggot, and touched him in the tender point; then he broke out into violent passion.
-Arbuthnot
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Merry Andrew
A buffoon; a zany; a jack-pudding.
"He would be a statesman because he is a buffoon; as if there went no more to the making of a counsellor than the faculties of a merry-andrew or tumbler."
-L'Estrange
"He would be a statesman because he is a buffoon; as if there went no more to the making of a counsellor than the faculties of a merry-andrew or tumbler."
-L'Estrange
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Macaroon:
A coarse, rude, low fellow; whence macaronick poetry, in which the language is purposely corrupted.
Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk in vain.
-Donne
Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk in vain.
-Donne
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