NP: Dictionary Pointer

[David Morris]

But you need to provide an Ohio library card number.


>From: Peter Petto <ppetto at apk.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: NP: Dictionary Pointer
>Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 08:34:32 -0400
>
>(Unless their doing something with cookies now) the Cleveland Public
>Library appears to be providing an open gateway to the OED:
>
>    http://ezp2.cpl.org:2059/
>
>Also, can anyone tell me the meaning of the word "snappeur" ?  (It appeared
>today in the Wordsmith word-of-the-day definition.):
>
>>choleric (KOHL-uhr-ik) adjective
>>
>>    Easily irritated or angered: hot-tempered.
>>
>>[Middle English colerik, from Latin cholericus, from Greek cholerikos.]
>>
>>    "Continually throwing off cuttings from its mown prose, the novel 
>>delights
>>    in word-play. Umeed is, at times, an angry photographer, `a choleric
>>    snappeur,' who resents playing second fiddle to the brilliant 
>>spectacle,
>>    and final demise, of Ormus and Vina: `second-fiddling while Rome 
>>burns'."
>>    James Wood, Books: Review: The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman 
>>Rushdie,
>>    The Guardian (London, UK), Apr 3, 1999.
>

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