Re: USAGE: The four shits in English
| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 14, 1999, 4:47 |
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Five.
"Chickenshit," meaning a coward.
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Ed doesn't know everything, but he hasn't figured that out yet.
Please break it to him gently. edheil@postmark.net
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John Cowan wrote:
> For reference, English recognizes four standard kinds of metaphorical
> excrement.
>
> "Bullshit" means "nonsense, lies, claptrap".
>
> "Dogshit" means "something of zero importance".
>
> "Horseshit" is similar to bullshit.
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> "Apeshit" is used only in the phrase "to go apeshit", which means to
> behave in a lunatic way, either approving or disapproving of something.
>
>
> --
> John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
> I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
>