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Sat 29 Jul, 2006 08:42 am
androlepsy, a custom whereby, according to Athenian law, if a citizen were killed abroad and his death unatoned for, three subjects of the offending country were seized as reprisals
phooka, a phantom horse (in Ireland); it was supposed to lure a person to mount it and then plunge with them over a cliff
You made that last one up Clary.
Re: Interesting and unusual words.
You say so because it's called "Clari gatio" in latin...
boomer-
I don't think Clary had a "he" in mind and she was going off a cliff not just into a bit of itsy-bitsy mud.
Boomerang's quite right, phooka has a whole whost of references
clarigatio?? So it is! Amazing coincidence, thank you Francis
more from everyone please!
Hair-gloves were made of horsehair to rub the skin while bathing.
I have, in the past, explained to clary the word "rounder" to the best of my knowledge she has not taken up the validated use of the word.
Do it again, dys, my memory est comme un passoir...
It's simply a ground ball with all the gangster scared out of it.
Duh.
Clary wrote:phooka, a phantom horse (in Ireland); it was supposed to lure a person to mount it and then plunge with them over a cliff
You phookan liar. Youse expect me to buy dat phookan ****?
Go on...... get outta here!
I'll give you a phooka with your bazooka if you go on like that...
blacksmithn, you're one step nearer getting that hat
Ok...maybe just a little.
shickshack or shitsack, oak leaves and applies worn on Oak Apple Day, May 29th - Charles II's public entry into London after the Restoration.
today's words are:
marriage music - children's cries
dunch - deaf
Great great great granddaddy Harvey!
And we pookas call him a pooka.
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