Re: antonyms: regretful & tasty
| From: | David Barrow <davidab@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 10, 2003, 6:26 |
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Hockey uses a ball like many sports. Now, if you mean ice hockey ;-) :
from my 1940s Webster:
puck [pVk]* n
1 a One of a class of evil spirits; a hobgoblin
b In late mediaeval English folklore a mischievous sprite; Robin
Goodfellow
c Character in Shakespeare's MND (my paraphrase of entry)
2 Hence, one given to mischiefmaking or mischievousness.
3 A disc of vulcanised rubber used in the game of ice hockey....
4 The European goatsucker. local, England
puck [pUk]* n
A blow; butt . ---- v.t to strike, butt both dial
*(obviously?) not Webster's phonetic representation
David Barrow
John Cowan wrote:
> Muke Tever scripsit:
>
> > But there are all sorts of words with obscure semantic values that float around
> > here. "paisley", "cuckold", "siphon", etc...
>
> I think it's amazing that English can waste one of its precious monosyllables
> on a thing used in the game of hockey and nowhere else.
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> What fools these mortals be.
>
> --
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