word for the day is "maffick"
Dave Monroe
against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 19:58:43 CDT 2010
Meanwhile, over @ the OED ...
muffle, v.1
http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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