Posted on 11/05/2013 4:57:56 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, November 5, 2013
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
skeigh [skeekh]
-adj
1. (of horses) spirited; inclined to shy.
2. (of women) proud; disdainful.
-adv
3. proudly.
[1500–10; earlier skeich, late Middle English skey, perhaps continuing Old English scēoh shy2 , with sk- < Middle Dutch schu shy]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZEdwDFYpI
Here’s one to get your toes tapping. Combining some soaring, hard-rocking Moog synth (from before New Wave made keyboards too gay for a hard rock band), an awesome bass line, dual vocalists and some cowbell.
Just dropped xs teen at the Vienna metro she called a minute later to say terry mcauliffe was there glad handing. She laughed in his face and refused his literature.
How in the hell can jay Carney wake up in the morning and face his day in anything resembling a skeigh manner?
I used to work for a septic tank company. No, I wasn’t a poo pumper, I installed new systems, but at least that job was nowhere near as crappy as the one Jay Carney holds.
Proud mama moment for sure!
The skeigh First Female Occupant of the White Hut refused to harvest her garden during the recent government shutdown and allowed it to rot in the field.
Too bad old Cooch just decided like yesterday to try to make this an Obamacare referendum. He should have been on that point weeks ago.
Just a warning that snow is expected north of me today. That means it’s coming your way.
Good choice to get the morning going!
Attagirl!
Stills were passed on as the engineers came and went.
It DID help that the local Saudi towns sold sugar in 50-lb bags and had foot tall CANS of yeast. Remember, if you buy yeast here, it comes in teeny packets.
Getting our young Americans to know ANY vocabulary beyond what is ABSOLUTELY essential for the Internet is a daunting task.
I was in Saudi recently and the guy I was working with there was from Egypt. He told me that everyone who moves there suddenly becomes a chemist with their own home “experiments.”
Xsbaby said she would’ve skeighly said can’t wait to NOT vote for you later today.
It is indeed. One of my favorite obscure classics.
We had our first “hard frost” yesterday morning. Enough to need to warm up the car while I have breakfast.
The Saudi ARAMCO company and the Saudis in general will ignore the booze making as long as there aren't any Americans/foreigners STUPID enough to sell it to the Saudis.
There always are. When they are caught, and they always are, the wives are sent home and the husbands land in a Saudi jail. Not fun.
The reason they are always caught is because some American or foreigner (non-Saudi) rats on his fellow countryman.
Must be his internals are worse than we thought. Good for xsteen.
skeekh Miely Cyrus?
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