This 3-letter term for a clumsy person may be derived from an old form of “elf”
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Three-Letter Word List - The Yak's Lair  Mar 1, 2006 ... Includes all 3-letter words acceptable in U.S. Club and Tournament Play as of 2009. .... old age ELF small, often mischievous fairy ELK large deer ELL letter 'l' ELM ... of roof HIS possessive form of the pronoun he HIT to strike HMM intj. ... order NUS [nu] (Greek letter) NUT to gather nuts OAF clumsy person...
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Three Letter Words - Toward the Examined Life - Sites - Google  Manuscript Form  Why Should I Get an ... Here are some three-letter words that you should have in your vocabulary. Some you won't ... The old dun-colored suit looked shabby and out of date. ... fey elf-like or faery-like. Marcie's fey ... The car wash may mar the paint job on my new Mercedes. ... oaf clumsy person. Don't let...
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Shakespeare's Fairies: Exploring the Fairy Poetry of A Midsummer ...  May 18, 2014 ... Of the fairy characters mentioned by Shakespeare may be ... 3. The name Titania for the queen of the fairies appears to have been ... the Welsh their Pwcca  both words derived from Pouke or Puck. .... The term ouphe, according to Grimm, is only another form of the cognate elf, which corresponds with the...
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L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Robin Stears  May 25, 2016 ... "Glee" club : CHOIR. "Glee" is derived form the old English word for song. .... Klutzes : OAFS. An OAF is a stupid, uncultured or clumsy person.
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The Grammar of English Grammars/Part II - Wikisource, the free ...  Aug 18, 2016 ... 3. THE ADJECTIVE. An Adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and ... A Participle is a word derived from a verb, participating the properties ...... and not the letter itself; as, "Those which admit of the regular form, are marked ..... Hence, I think, we may infer, that this is not the old preposition a, but the...
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Previous Entry - Wordorigins.org  Dec 20, 2015 ... The word is a borrowing from the Scandinavian languagesit's hreindri in Old ... Deer is a Germanic root meaning animal or beast, which only later ... The word makes one appearance in Old English, in an account of a voyage to ... The association of reindeer with Christmas and Santa Claus dates to early...
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Elf - Wikipedia  An elf (plural: elves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. .... The people who copied the Poetic Edda do not seem to have attempted to .... For a long time, views about elves in Old Norse mythology were defined by ..... form Elb in his Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings (1967) and Elb,...
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ITTY BITTY - Rhyming Nonsense - People  Jul 30, 2016 ... ... for some reason, designed for two shoulders and usually worn over one .... sem (a women's college) fender bender (a minor car accident) fer sher (a .... jobson (the process in which foreign words or phrases are misheard,...
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pugilist - Word of the Day | Dictionary.com  Nov 6, 2000 ... Pugilist comes from Latin pugil, a boxer; it is connected with pugnus, a fist. The adjective form is pugilistic. Pugilism is another term for the sport...
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The Hackers Dictionary - Tronico.fi  May 27, 1978 ... Paper communication just takes too long when compared to the .... As usual with slang, the special vocabulary of hackers helps hold their culture ...... The prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the {PDP10} by ...... To stresstest a piece of hardware or software: "I banged on the new...
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Full text of "A Kannada-English school-dictionary : chiefly based on ...  Dr. Kittel, the eminent lexicographer of the Kannada language, whose ... These being difficult to trace to their original constituent parts have, of course, ... to mark with the initials of the respective language the words migrated from. .... Before a vowel es be- comes icS*; thus s-e5o;^= w^o^ end- less. ...... A zigzag lightning.
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Aug 26 2012 3:58 pm - A Linguistic Bestiary of David Foster Wallace  Aug 26, 2012 ... The more pedestrian terms like shaggy, unshorn, bushy, coiffed, and so on ... Cirrose and cirrous, from the Latin cirrus meaning curl or fringe (as in ... Hirsute is probably the most familiar upmarket synonym for hairy, ... with coarse or bristly hairs), but in regular usage its definition is much more general.
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Language Log  Ornery  Aug 5, 2013 ... NPR's "A Way with Words" documented the usage of "ordinary" in one of their episodes. ... in line with the dictionary definition, i.e. cantankerous, ill-tempered, ..... as passing moods but I perceive "ornery" as a chronic personality trait. ..... Variation  Verb formation  Vernacular  Words words words  World...
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Jeopary Questions page 784 - LANGUAGES - TriviaBistro.com  SWEETS: These chewy cakes named for a type of elf may be butterscotch instead of chocolate ... SWEETS: This dessert may be cabinet, nesselrode or tapioca.
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Jeopary Questions page 2172 - HUSBAND & WIFE - TriviaBistro.com  BUY A VOWEL: This "A" word means to relinquish power or give up the throne  EUROPEAN LANGUAGES: ... A CATEGORY FROM SCRATCH: This nocturnal mammal's name comes from an Algonquin word for "he scratches with his hands".
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1 - Online Etymology Dictionary  Originally in reference to older church music (pre-1600) which was written for unaccompanied voices; applied 20c. to unaccompanied vocal music generally. .... Or it can be a reduced form of the Old English past participle prefix ge-, as in aware. .... word-forming element meaning "away, from, from off, down," denoting...
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The Ruptured Duck Flies Again: Webster's Seventh Collegiate - JStor  and it is true that its eagle-eyed editors ... will be reassuring to the ordinary speaker ... Webster's Third New International Dic- ... Because the Third does not im- ... II - "Mil., normally used up or consumed ... small gnome held to be responsible for ... mit boo as an interjection, but VII no ... "esp. children," so presumably VII can.
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Urban Dictionary: that's the way the cookie crumbles  A term used to explain to somebody that you can't control the way things are ... Me: "What a fucking stupid idiot, but, I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles.".
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Anima1s Part 3 Flashcards | Quizlet  ANIMAL NAME ORIGINS $200: In Sanskrit this sppedy animal's name was ...... Kind of slipper whose name comes from a medieval word for "chilblain", not for an...
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clumsy - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com  ... like they have two left feet. Something hard to handle  like a huge box  is also clumsy. ... lacking grace in movement or posture. 2. adj. difficult to handle or...
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Old English - Wikipedia  Old English (nglisc, Anglisc, Englisc) or Anglo-Saxon is the earliest historical form of the .... It is considered to represent the "classical" form of Old English. ... and languages of the colonising tribes, and it is perhaps only towards the later ..... still lacked the letters j and w, and there was no v as distinct from u;...