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In a message dated 2/3/2004 9:16:49 AM Eastern Standard Time,
myrtlehogwash@... writes:
Thank you for helping me look at it in a different way. It *is* hard not to
see the replies as personally directed when they are but I obviously need to
practice that (and a lot else it seems!). I fossick around in other threads
and
quite often come up with a gem that could help me so I can see your
point.<<<<<<<


I love words, but it's rare that I see one on a list that I don't know.
Thanks for this one! <g>



fos·sick ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fsk)
v. Australian fos·sicked, fos·sick·ing, fos·sicks
v. intr.
To search for gold, especially by reworking washings or waste piles.
To rummage or search around, especially for a possible profit.

v. tr.
To search for by or as if by rummaging.



[English dialectal, to find out, dig up.]

fossick·er n.

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fossick
\Fos"sick\, v. i. [Dial. E. fossick, fossuck, a troublesome person, fussick
to potter over one's work, fussock to bustle about; of uncertain origin. Cf.
Fuss.] 1. (Mining) To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among
roots in isolated spots, picking over abandoned workings, etc.; hence, to steal
gold or auriferous matter from another's claim. [Australia]

2. To search about; to rummage.

A man who has fossicked in nature's byways. --D. Macdonald


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Deborah Lewis

***I love words, but it's rare that I see one on a list that I don't
know. ***

Have you seen the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue? I thought of
you and Sandra when I saw it. Not that you're vulgar, you understand.
<g>

School of Venus was one name for a brothel.
Dishclout was a dirty, greasy woman
A grave was sometimes called an earth bath.
A Hempen widow was someone who's husband had been hanged.

We have the book "The Word Museum", by Jeffrey Kacirk. We regularly use
words like quanked (overpowered by fatigue) and crapulous (given to
drunkenness.)

Deb L

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe."
~John Muir~

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In a message dated 03/02/2004 17:05:36 Pacific Standard Time,
ddzimlew@... writes:


> We have the book "The Word Museum", by Jeffrey Kacirk. We regularly use
> words like quanked (overpowered by fatigue) and crapulous (given to
> drunkenness.)
>

Deb, have you ever been so quanked you felt like being crapulous was just
easier?
Nancy in BC, seriously considering crapulousness.


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Deborah Lewis

***Nancy in BC, seriously considering crapulousness.***

Nancy you don't strike me as the crapulous type. <g> With three broken
arms, ( wait, that's not right, one arm broken three times) I can
understand you'd be seriously quanked though.

How are your kids? Isn't it nice of me to ask you questions and make you
type one handed? <g>

Deb L

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe."
~John Muir~

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In a message dated 05/02/2004 12:14:23 Pacific Standard Time,
ddzimlew@... writes:


> How are your kids? Isn't it nice of me to ask you questions and make you
> type one handed? <g>
>
>

Oh Deb, i am doing so well and so are the kids. We are in fact having a
fabulous time with this staying home thing!!!! I am typing 2 handed thank you very
much, as the now plated arm works already, just can't bear weight with it, or
pull on stuff. The wonders of medicine!(GAG) Actually, this is amazing. I had
the staples out today and dd wants to know where they went.
On the unschooling side of things, perhaps this has happened for a reason. As
from the depths of my despair I found the ability to look inwards,(gag
again). I see that I was avoiding my kids a bit, using the TV, the phone etc to not
do stuff with them and calling it unschooling.I now am having a great time
being WITH my kids, we watch TV and play x-box, read, do puzzles, giggle, and
lots more. I think I am getting this. I have been reading lots at the message
boards, and tho I believed I knew what I was doing, now I know more.
Ds Tommy, 8, announced that he was not sure he wanted a friend over the other
day as he was having fun just being with us, his family, and doing stuff
together.That is after 1 week without seeing another kid. Pretty cool!!! Of course
he was happy to get together with his buddy, but he is less antsy to always
have friends around.
Now aren't you sorry you asked? I appreciate your interest.
Nancy in BC, waving gently with the broken arm that is "screwed, glued and
tattoed"


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