Re: Welsh hearts was Re: A request for Ray: The aptitive
| From: | Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 10, 1999, 7:06 |
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At 5:47 pm -0500 9/3/99, Padraic Brown wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Orjan Johansen wrote:
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>> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:
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>> > If that doesn't quite do it; send it to bed without its charcoal
>> > bicky.
>> ^^^^^
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>> Excuse me, but I couldn't find that word in WWWebster...
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>I picked it up in a book somewhere as sort of slang for biscuit or cooky.
It's British, and common enough here. As Padraig says, it means "biscuit"
(i.e. cooky :) As well as bickies, we also eat sarnies. (Sandwiches :)
Ray.