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Thread #62177 Message #1003842
Posted By: Amos
18-Aug-03 - 12:07 AM
Thread Name: 'Arctophile' -- Who knew?
Subject: RE: 'Arctophile' -- Who knew?
Merkin: What Georgians are proud to be one of. Seriously, ...A pubic wig for women. Alteration of obsolete malkin, lower-class woman, mop, from Middle English, from Malkin, diminutive of the personal name Matilda.
Smegma:A sebaceous secretion, especially the cheesy secretion that collects under the prepuce or around the clitoris. Latin smgma, detergent, from Greek
Quiddity:.The real nature of a thing; the essence. 2. A hairsplitting distinction; a quibble. Medieval Latin quiddits, from Latin quid, what.
Ya gotta wonder, out of all the 100,000 plus words in use in English, why these three rise to the forefront of misoph's attention! :>) Are the some sort of delicate links of association involved?