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Thread #59418 Message #3164203
Posted By: Amos
02-Jun-11 - 10:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Oh some there are more fat than Mom,
And some who are much trimmer;
But we can say with great aplomb,
Our Mom, she ain't no limmer.
Today's word, in association with the remarkable Oxford English Dictionary, is
limmer (n. & adj.)
n. (1) A rogue, scoundrel. Obs.
(2) Applied to a woman.
(a) A light woman; a strumpet.
(b) In weaker sense: A jade, hussy, minx.
adj. Knavish, scoundrelly.
Used in a sentence in 1828 by Walter Scott:
"There have been a proper set of limmers about to scale your windows, father Simon."