Porpentine

David Casseres david.casseres at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 16:34:10 CDT 2006


On 8/9/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> As did I, but I wasn't sure, so ...
>
> --- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the explanation. Quite a rare word.
> > Greedy bastards indeed!!! I thought it rhymed
> > with "turpentine".
>
> ... but it's not as if that list was of immediate
> help, either, took me a, uh, few words to be sure ...

Of course it rhymes with turpentine.  It means "porcupine," so it
rhymes with porcupine.  Fuck Webster.



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