queer to mean unusual
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queer to mean unusual
snob.
Where is charleyboy? There ought to be a challenge option.Quote:
Originally Posted by charleyboy
I challenge blockbuster, cocksuker, slide rule, pram (in UK) and telegram.
^ Blockbuster Video
4 blockbusters out this week.
Sloane ranger
BCBG (french bon chic, bon genre)
Roladex
Are you challenging them because you think they are still commonly used in the UK? Or that they never were commonly used in the UK?Quote:
Originally Posted by wjblaney
Slide rule and pram used to be commonly used in the UK but they aren't now. Probably telegram, too, but before my time.
I'm not sure about the other 2 words.
Well, you're right about pram then. My bad.
I don't think the other two are archaic.
No shit, that was a common place phrase?Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceman123
clip. (aroun the ear)
I looked up sloane ranger on Wiki::lmao:Quote:
a Sloane Ranger is a stereotypical young upper-middle or upper class person who pursues a distinctive fashionable lifestyle.
termagant
I don't know. Sounds like it might be challengeable. Looks like the meaning has changed over time. I wouldn't know, being from Amerika where we try to keep everybody ignorant unless it's got something to do with us.
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In medieval Europe, Termagant was the name given to a god which Christians wrongly believed Muslims worshipped, represented in the mystery plays as a violent overbearing personage. The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, vixen.
howdy mam.
^ on the line, there, Billy, if not over. Been to the American Southwest? I allus assumed so, given your avi. But the Discovery channel has taught me real cowboys talk jes like they used to. ;)
The point being, when have you heard (or seen) anyone call a woman a termagant? It may be in "modern" English, but its use is largely discontinued, and hence meets the thread criterion.Quote:
Originally Posted by wjblaney
Challenge dismissed you mewling mammothrept.
humbly retracted as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by nidhogg
DISCOVERY channel ???? Yew not frum arouuwnd these parts, boway ?Quote:
Originally Posted by wjblaney
Hypervalue
Guesstimate
Grocklebox
jacks
Gravesend Dave
Aberlour
Super duper
Brute