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Thread #162910 Message #3880936
Posted By: Jack Campin
08-Oct-17 - 06:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Use of the English language
Subject: RE: BS: Use of the English language
Jack, what is a "funling"?
Literally "foundling" but in that context (The Flyting o Dunbar and Kennedie) it seems to mean "runt". "Wan-fukkit" for Dunbar meant that your parents were so unenthusiastic and lackadaisical about fucking each other that they didn't fuck you into existence properly.
I don't think Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow, was any relation, but his "Great Cursing" is the work of somebody who could really have used the Internet effectively: