Re: They Have a Word for It!

<intrigued look>  Etymology of "bludge"?  I hadn't heard the word
before, but I'm not picky--bludge, fucha, whichever works.  :-)  Cool!

On that note, I seem to remember some "dictionary" of words that ought
to exist, snatches of which were read to us in 3rd grade.  I can't for
the life of me remember the author or title, but one word I remember
vividly was "airdo," or "the little rubber-dust fragments that come from
an eraser when you use it" (or somesuch).  This ring a bell with anyone?

YHL

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:

> >fucha (Polish): using company time for your own ends
>
> I'd probably translate that as 'bludge', I'm afraid (Although bludge has a
> much larger range of meanings, for example, evading responsibilities, a job
> which involves next to no work, doing nothing when you should be doing
> something (first two defs from Macquarie Dictionary)).

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