Wednesday, November 08, 2017

lipper


(n.) a thin piece of oblong blubber used to 
wipe up gurry or slumgullion from a whaler’s deck.
- Century Dictionary & Encyclopedia, 1911 ed.
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3 comments:

  1. Spider Jim King3:57 PM

    Gurry and Slumgullion, Attorneys at Law.

    or

    Slumgullion and Gurry, heirs to Simon and Garfunkel.

    Not to be confused, of course, with slubberdegullion, a contemptible slob. That from "Depraved and Insulting English," one of my favorite tomes.

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  2. Jay King12:27 AM

    Really? There's a slumgullion and a slubberdegullion? English is a weird language.

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  3. Spider Jim King12:01 PM

    Oh, I don't know. Any language that can come up with a word like "snivelard" is okay by me.

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