Re: GR translation: Nora’s girdled behind/girdle around her knees

[Mike Jing]

Got it. Thanks, Mike.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> It's a corset.
>
> On 31/10/2025 13:51, Mike Jing wrote:
> > V639.20-30, P652.6-16   —poor Nora will be suckered into séances that
> > wouldn’t fool your great-aunt, visits from the likes of Ronald Cherrycoke
> > in a Jesus Christ getup, whistling down the wires into a hidden
> ultraviolet
> > baby spot where he will start fluorescing in most questionable taste,
> > blithering odd bits of Gospel together, reaching down from his crucified
> > altitudes to actually cop feels of Nora’s girdled behind . . . highly
> > offended, she will flee into hallways full of clammy invisible
> > hands—poltergeists will back toilets up on her, ladylike turds will bob
> at
> > her virgin vertex, and screaming *ugh*, ass dripping, girdle around her
> > knees, she will go staggering into her own drawing-room to find no refuge
> > even there,
> >
> > Is the word "girdle" here used in sense 1.a. or 1.d.?
> >
> > 1.a. A belt worn round the waist to secure or confine the garments; also
> > employed as a means of carrying light articles, esp. a weapon or purse.
> >
> > 1.d. = corset *n.* 2
> > <https://www.oed.com/dictionary/corset_n?tab=meaning_and_use#8224319>;
> spec.
> > a corset, usually elasticated, that does not extend above the waist.
> > Originally U.S.
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