| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 15, 2001, 21:21 |
In a message dated 8/15/01 8:39:24 AM, zsau@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:
<< zzz /z@z/ n. Colloq. a sleep. [from the convention used, esp. by
cartoonists, to represent sleep or the sound of snoring] >>
Not a real word, though. Taking a clue from the literary magazine by the
same name, "zyzzyva", "any of various tropical American weevils of the genus
Zyzzyva, often destructive to plants".
-David
| Amber Adams <amber@...> |