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'Round these parts, I've learned a particularly quaint New
England insult: "dink-weed."
Used like this: "Geeze, don't be such a
dink-weed."
:-)
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Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:21
PM
Subject: Re: <Kein Betreff>
"Putz" carries the secondary (vulgar) meaning of "a penis"
Hey, Richard, are you perhaps thinking of the word "schmuck" (literal
translation "jewel")?
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Sent: 12/17/2004 11:03:27 AM
Subject: Re:
At 11:48 AM +0100 12/17/04, Andreas Willers wrote:
Don't send
your unsubscribe message to the list, or people will make fun of you and
you will feel like a dork.
Hey Richard,
tell an old
European, what's a dork? :-)
Andreas
That was a direct quote from the Looper's Delight Web site, so Kim may
want to weigh in with his own nuanced definition of "dork," but here's
mine:
A dork is an individual of less-than-optimal competence, one who simply
can't "get it together." To me, at least, it is a similar term to the
Yiddish "putz" (a fool; an idiot) or possibly "schlemiel" (a habitual
bungler; a dolt). "Putz" carries the secondary (vulgar) meaning of "a penis"
and this serves to underscore the etymological origins of "dork" (cf. "dork
nozzle").
Alles klar? --
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