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To: TET1968

OMG! That is so funny! Thank you for the "new name" for the Donut Holes...LOL!!!!!!


149 posted on 03/31/2007 6:17:31 PM PDT by antivenom (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!)
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To: antivenom

Re: Donut Holes

Word for the Day:

Wowser (Noun)
Pronunciation: [waw-zê(r)]

Definition: Regional colloquialism (Australia and New Zealand). A puritanical fanatic, a prudish teetotaler; a killjoy and party-pooper all rolled into one.

Usage: The 'Daily News' wrote April 4, 1909, "‘Wowser’ is a term applied by certain portions of the Australian press to persons of all denominations, more particularly to those fanatical on temperance and social evils."

According to 'The Nation' May 11, 1912, a wowser is "one who wants to compel everybody else...to do whatever he thinks right, and abstain from everything he thinks wrong." The noun is wowserism "party-poopery," the adjective is "wowserish," and a wowserish person may also be a wowserite.


166 posted on 04/01/2007 1:16:17 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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