Fw: "Murngin" - Word of the Day from the OED

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 10:35:07 CDT 2008


2008/8/25 kevin cummiskey <kevincummiskey at yahoo.com>:

> Here's evidence our ceo contacted OED or perhaps he may have been
> inrecuperation and one of our wasted (permenitly) scribes made the call
> either way the word is novel though totally irrelevent (figures)

Forwarded that to an anthropologist of my acquaintance this morning.
For my part, however, I'm going to (talk about type-casting ...) play
dumb and use it ether as an archaism for "snacking," and/or an
obsolete obscenity ...



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