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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 1:32 am
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Hi
-a-licious seems to be some kind of productive suffix. What does it
mean? Examples are:
babe-a-licious
font-a-licious
gadget-a-licious
Pope-a-licious
pose-a-licious
smell-a-licious
etc.
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Areff
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 1:32 am
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R H Draney wrote:
| Quote: | Say, where *is* de781, anyway?...r
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Busy building his music video cable TV network empire. |
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 1:44 am
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braininvat@hotmail.com filted:
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Hi
-a-licious seems to be some kind of productive suffix. What does it
mean? Examples are:
babe-a-licious
font-a-licious
gadget-a-licious
Pope-a-licious
pose-a-licious
smell-a-licious
etc.
Thanks a lot.
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 1:45 am
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Delightful, wonderful, covetable. Thus far, it's slang. The source is
the word "delicious."
Cece |
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 1:49 am
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braininvat@hotmail.com filted:
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-a-licious seems to be some kind of productive suffix. What does it
mean? Examples are:
babe-a-licious
font-a-licious
gadget-a-licious
Pope-a-licious
pose-a-licious
smell-a-licious
etc.
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It's actually "-licious" that's the productive suffix, with vowels inserted for
the sake of euphony, thus "choc-o-licious" (real advertising come-on),
"carb-o-licious" (parodistic advertising come-on), and "booty-licious"....
Say, where *is* de781, anyway?...r |
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eromlignod
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 2:03 am
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ceceliaarmstr...@yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | Delightful, wonderful, covetable. Thus far, it's slang. The source
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the word "delicious."
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It could probably also be loosely traced to "Bubblicious" (bubble +
delicious), a brand of soft bubble gum that came out in the Seventies
in the US (and is still around).
Don
Kansas City |
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Don Phillipson
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:09 am
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<braininvat@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1116271940.760971.291050@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
| Quote: | Hi
-a-licious seems to be some kind of productive suffix. What does it
mean? Examples are:
babe-a-licious
font-a-licious
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You have been deceived. This is a recent
coinage meaning "Please buy our goods,
records, junk food" etc. etc.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada) |
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 4:37 am
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Areff filted:
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R H Draney wrote:
Say, where *is* de781, anyway?...r
Busy building his music video cable TV network empire.
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This is funny enough to send off to alt.humor.best-of-usenet, but it requires
entirely too much context....r |
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Cool Guy
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:15 am
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R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote:
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What does 'filted' mean? I can't seem to find its definition. |
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Donna Richoux
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:47 am
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Cool Guy <coolguy@abc.xyz> wrote:
| Quote: | R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote:
braininvat@hotmail.com filted:
What does 'filted' mean? I can't seem to find its definition.
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A teacher teaches, a farmer farms...
By the way, you ask in another post to be corrected on your English. I
can't find a dot out of place. You're doing great.
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Best -- Donna Richoux |
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Peter Moylan
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 7:10 am
Post subject: What's an option? |
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R H Draney turpitued:
For those who prefer to avoid Google's attempt to take over Usenet,
the Message-ID is <bs67e101utl@drn.newsguy.com>.
This is the first time I've looked at the GG beta, and while trying
to find the message header I was briefly puzzled by the link labelled
"Show options". Does anyone else use the word "option" to mean
"header line"?
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Peter Moylan peter at ee dot newcastle dot edu dot au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software) |
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Peter Moylan
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 7:10 am
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braininvat@hotmail.com turpitued:
| Quote: | -a-licious seems to be some kind of productive suffix. What does it
mean? Examples are:
babe-a-licious
font-a-licious
gadget-a-licious
Pope-a-licious
pose-a-licious
smell-a-licious
etc.
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It's the suffix form of "meretricious".
--
Peter Moylan peter at ee dot newcastle dot edu dot au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software) |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 6:36 pm
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Peter Moylan wrote:
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| Quote: | This is the first time I've looked at the GG beta, and while trying
to find the message header I was briefly puzzled by the link
labelled
"Show options". Does anyone else use the word "option" to mean
"header line"?
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That's not their only idiotsynchrosy. If you use it to send a reply,
they abuse the word "momentarily", and also claim you've just sent a
"new topic". I can't fit "archive" and "sloppy" together as well as
they seem to be able to.
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Mike. |
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 8:16 pm
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Peter Moylan filted:
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braininvat@hotmail.com turpitued:
-a-licious seems to be some kind of productive suffix. What does it
mean? Examples are:
babe-a-licious
font-a-licious
gadget-a-licious
Pope-a-licious
pose-a-licious
smell-a-licious
etc.
It's the suffix form of "meretricious".
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....and a Happy New Year!...r |
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