TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 3: transmogrified
Glenn Scheper
glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 14 09:24:06 CDT 2004
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html
1 entry found for transmogrified.
trans·mog·ri·fy (
P )
Pronunciation Key (trns-mgr-f,
trnz-)
tr.v.
trans·mog·ri·fied,
trans·mog·ri·fy·ing,
trans·mog·ri·fies To change into a different shape or form,
especially one that is fantastic or bizarre.
See Synonyms at convert.
[Origin unknown.]
trans·mogri·fi·cation (-f-kshn)
n.
I donno how the origins can be unknown.
There's obviously the word ogre in there.
But opinion fills all my gaps and lapses.
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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