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06.09.2007, 13:36
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| Quote: | |  | | | Perspicacious .... sadly little used. Had it once in a reference letter. | | | | | .....a new one on me but like it. Will make it my mission today to squeeze it in to general convo.
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06.09.2007, 13:42
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Jack-A-Napes
recently read it in HG Wells' Kipps - referring to any Tom, Dick or Harry
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06.09.2007, 13:47
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Lollygagging. Lollygagger. To Lollygag.
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06.09.2007, 13:48
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I also love using troglodyte, wizened, surreptitious, diaphanous to name but a few...think its all in the phonetics
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06.09.2007, 13:53
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Phantasmagoria:
1. A shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined, as in a dream.
2. Any constantly changing scene.
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06.09.2007, 13:55
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| Quote: | | | | | Lollygagging. Lollygagger. To Lollygag. | | | | | description of you in the Tallacker then ?  |
06.09.2007, 13:56
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From JVC's link - Skedaddle. Excellent word.
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06.09.2007, 13:57
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| Quote: | | | | | description of you in the Tallacker then ? | | | | | Yeah maybe, but I got there in the end... |
06.09.2007, 14:04
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| Quote: | | | | | Yeah maybe, but I got there in the end... | | | | | was she effervescent ?  |
06.09.2007, 14:05
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I'm afraid you have me utterly discombobulated with that one...
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06.09.2007, 17:50
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salacious, lascivious, lecherous
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06.09.2007, 17:54
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| Quote: | | | | | salacious, lascivious, lecherous | | | | | form an orderly queue ....
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06.09.2007, 18:01
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Exemplary!
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06.09.2007, 18:05
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I'm aspeptic, frasmotic, almost computous to cause you such sincere incombobulations!!!!
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10.09.2007, 10:43
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egregious, ignoramous, pettifogger
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10.09.2007, 10:52
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How about Paraphernalia? another one of me mums.
"I want you out of this room now and take all yer paraphernalia with you"!
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10.09.2007, 10:55
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Paraphernalia to me has always had a very specific meaning. Mainly relating to drugs. Is that why your mom was kicking you out? | Quote: | | | | | How about Paraphernalia? another one of me mums.
"I want you out of this room now and take all yer paraphernalia with you"! | | | | | |
10.09.2007, 11:01
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| Quote: | | | | | Paraphernalia to me has always had a very specific meaning. Mainly relating to drugs. Is that why your mom was kicking you out? | | | | | Nah, that was long before i even knew about them  |
10.09.2007, 11:01
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Grody ... horrifying, outrageous
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