word for the day is "maffick"

[Johnny Marr]

The most recently cited usage:

"Colin Milburn had a glazed look of stupefaction in his unseeing eyes and
was completely oblivious to the mafficking going all around him in the wake
of England's recently completed Test victory over Australia."
*Frank Tyson*; Driven by Natural Gifts; Sportstar (Chennai, India); Jul 4,
2009.

Tyson is rated by most who saw him in his pomp (1954) as the fastest bowler
in the history of cricket - such judges include Don Bradman, (greatest
batsman of all time, who wasn't generationally biased in his opinion - he
had already retired by the time Tyson played), Richie Benaud (brilliant
captain and leading authority on the game who's seen more test matches than
anyone else) and Dickie Bird (longstanding umpire who saw several
generations of rapid bowlers close up).

I appreciate this will be wooshing over a number of readers' heads, but I
think Pynchon would enjoy the reference - it's the equivalent of Darryl
Strawberry discussing the ineluctable modality of the visible.

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html
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