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Thread #6002 Message #1020436
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
16-Sep-03 - 11:31 PM
Thread Name: Word meaning--rigadoo
Subject: RE: Word meaning--rigadoo
Talk about time travel- answering a question five years old! Budget, meaning a pouch, bag or wallet is the first meaning given in the Oxford English Dictionary. Meaning number two is a leather or skin bottle. Number 3 is a bundle, or the contents of a wallet. Not until they get to 4 do we find our usual meaning, a statement of revenue and expenditure. A budget is also a leather socket for retaining the butt of a cavalry carbine.