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  • teamsaint
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 25238

    #31
    Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
    if you google 'guddle' you will find a number of definitions. Ignore the third - I've never come across it in that connection
    I have googled this, against my better judgement.... I wonder what Mary Whitehouse would have made of the internet ?
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • MrGongGong
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 18357

      #32
      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
      I have googled this, against my better judgement.... I wonder what Mary Whitehouse would have made of the internet ?
      She would have loved wallowing in it all

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      • amateur51

        #33
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Perfection, AmpH



        Great word, pity about the choice of fruit...
        You'd prefer celery?

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26597

          #34
          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
          .
          .. in English : dwindle


          in French : moelleux
          ...



          :d'accord:
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26597

            #35
            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            You'd prefer celery?
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25238

              #36
              celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery
              celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery

              That was fun . anyway rubbish word.

              I love pamplemousse , though. What a word.
              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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              • Flosshilde
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 7988

                #37
                stravaigin

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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25238

                  #38
                  I also like the phrase " Spot the Ball"...when you self evidently can't.
                  I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                  I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                  • Flosshilde
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7988

                    #39
                    Can we have place names? I like 'Mildenhall' (the Wiltshire one)

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26597

                      #40
                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                      celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery
                      celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery celery

                      That was fun . anyway rubbish word.


                      Nurse!!!!!!! NURSE!!!!!
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • Roslynmuse
                        Full Member
                        • Jun 2011
                        • 1264

                        #41
                        Schmetterling

                        Melismatic

                        Luxe, calme et volupté

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                        • jayne lee wilson
                          Banned
                          • Jul 2011
                          • 10711

                          #42
                          Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                          I propose Freudenschade.
                          By Polonius! That's good...

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            #43
                            is nugatory that chocolate that always gets left in the box at Christmas ?

                            oh no, that's gnugat
                            Last edited by mercia; 07-11-12, 02:17.

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              #44
                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              I like susurration too
                              had to look that up
                              certainly nicer than suppuration

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                              • mangerton
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 3346

                                #45
                                Asseverate, contradistinction

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