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Thread #114361   Message #2440086
Posted By: Backwoodsman
14-Sep-08 - 01:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: When did 'forbid' become 'forfend'?
Subject: RE: BS: When did 'forbid' become 'forfend'?
"Discombobulate" seems to be a Southern-Puffter-Wine-Bar-Hanger corruption of the old Lincolnshire (specifically, Gainsborough on the Lincolnshire/North Notts border) dialect word 'Discombooberate', meaning "to baffle one's audience by speaking utter bollocks in a manner intended to convey the said bollocks as an absolute, undeniable truth".