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shenmue

(38,538 posts) Thu Jan 29, 2015, 02:30 AM Jan 2015

Fun with a thesaurus: how's your 'poop-noddy' life? ;) [View all]

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This isn't fiction, but we all love words and reading, so I thought I'd post it here.

A historical thesaurus project is complete, resulting in a vast collection of words that have fallen by the wayside. Which is a shame, because many of them sounded like fun.

From the article:

If you wanted to insult someone 300 years ago, the best way was to call them a 'wattle-head', or a 'shallow-pate'. And having sex has previously been known as 'commixtion', 'mollocking' and even ‘poop noddy.'

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Fun with a thesaurus: how's your 'poop-noddy' life? ;) [View all] shenmue Jan 2015 OP

Have you ever seen the short poem RoBear Jan 2015 #1

You piqued my interested with that poem. Goblinmonger Jan 2015 #2

Cool! I hope you'll post the poem here for all of us when you get the book. scarletwoman Jan 2015 #3

I googled it several times, but... RoBear Jan 2015 #4

It was ridiculously hard to find (in Google search terms). Goblinmonger Jan 2015 #5

I applaud RoBear Jan 2015 #6

"The Death of Roget" by George Hatch, Jr. Goblinmonger Feb 2015 #7

Thank you! RoBear Feb 2015 #8

I can't find the expression RoBear Feb 2015 #9

Totally a typo Goblinmonger Feb 2015 #10

Thanks. RoBear Feb 2015 #11

Totally read aloud. Goblinmonger Feb 2015 #12

Woo hoo! That's a keeper! Thank you so much!!! scarletwoman Feb 2015 #13

Fixed. Thanks Goblinmonger Feb 2015 #14

You're a wonderful person! You do the research, buy the book, then transcribe the poem! scarletwoman Feb 2015 #15

It is a really good book. Goblinmonger Feb 2015 #16