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Thread #16724   Message #896351
Posted By: Ebbie
22-Feb-03 - 11:45 PM
Thread Name: Origin of verb 'to gig?'
Subject: RE: Origin of verb 'to gig?'
Darn- I've forgotten Little Dorritt's name now but you said, "I once remembered seeing an episode of Mork and Mindy when a character was called Mr Wanker - "... That reminds me of what Mork often called Mindy: "Pooter". In the colloquial, dialectical German I grew up with, Pooter was a "little fart."