A showy 'trifle', a toy; a showy trinket, ornament
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Re: A showy 'trifle', a toy; a showy trinket, ornament
scullion wrote:it's ipsedixitism - and not just because i say it is!
AArrgh - embarrassing typo I'm using lockdown to try to learn to type with both hands - there have been some crackers.
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Re: A showy 'trifle', a toy; a showy trinket, ornament
PatsyMFagan wrote:Well I never ... you learn something every day
So do I but I've forgotten it 24 hours later.
Re: A showy 'trifle', a toy; a showy trinket, ornament
Well, I had to look it up diddle I? Sort of obligatory really. Anyway, "ipse dixit" means something only true because he himself said it. So, unsupported and might or might not be true.
I imagine Mr Gove's words this morning as a government minister are a good example whereby he urged us to believe the words he said were true but actually some critical ones weren't.
Can it noun-ised? As in "He's a right ipse dixit!"
I imagine Mr Gove's words this morning as a government minister are a good example whereby he urged us to believe the words he said were true but actually some critical ones weren't.
Can it noun-ised? As in "He's a right ipse dixit!"
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I know - I've been spending lockdown studying the classics. In fact I've read so much Greek poetry, I think I'm coming down with Ovid - 19.
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Re: A showy 'trifle', a toy; a showy trinket, ornament
Gruney -
Here's a couple of food-related words:
Bellygod - a glutton. Someone who makes a god of his belly
Pingle - to eat with little or no appetite.
I have to be seriously poorly before I pingle!
Grasshopper
Here's a couple of food-related words:
Bellygod - a glutton. Someone who makes a god of his belly
Pingle - to eat with little or no appetite.
I have to be seriously poorly before I pingle!
Grasshopper
Grasshopper
Spring ventures forth to plant the grain
And Summer dries the straw.
Autumn gathers in the harvest
And Winter shuts the door.
Re: A showy 'trifle', a toy; a showy trinket, ornament
I had to look up Ovid. I notice he wrote Metamorphoses, which coincidentally is the word I decided was the first my newborn would say. Either that or "curtains", being easier to articulate. But nope, it was "Dad".
I wonder if the makers of Pringles cottoned on to pingle?
I wonder if the makers of Pringles cottoned on to pingle?
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This thread has turned out to be so funny. Had no idea about 'bumf'!
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Re: A showy 'trifle', a toy; a showy trinket, ornament
jeral wrote:I had to look up Ovid. I notice he wrote Metamorphoses, which coincidentally is the word I decided was the first my newborn would say. Either that or "curtains", being easier to articulate. But nope, it was "Dad".
A couple I know had a friendly contest as to whether baby would say Mum or Dad first. Nope - she sat in her high chair, pointed clearly and squealed Cat!
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Tee hee. That sounds about par for the course, i.e. Cat 1, Humans Nil
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