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What is a widdle boat?

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PennyChan
 
Reply Fri 11 Feb, 2011 09:49 pm
"Aw," Joe said, "did your rich daddy buy you a widdle boat? Did he let you toot the horn?"

What is a widdle boat?
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Reply Fri 11 Feb, 2011 09:53 pm
@PennyChan,
"Widdle" is the way American little kids say "Little". The author is using this term to convey a mocking tone. Joe is speaking like a baby to mock the person he is speaking with.




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Reply Fri 11 Feb, 2011 09:55 pm
@PennyChan,
That's 'baby talk' for 'little'.
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Reply Fri 11 Feb, 2011 10:05 pm
@roger,
found on p. 133 of

http://www.amazon.com/What-Saw-Lied-Judy-Blundell/dp/0439903467


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roger
 
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Reply Fri 11 Feb, 2011 10:49 pm
@ehBeth,
Well, I guess we know who speaks Baby, don't we?
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Reply Sat 12 Feb, 2011 08:16 am
It's what you call a cigrette butt in the urinal
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