Auk's dimber tip to all flash coves

Gwern Branwen · 11 Jul 2009, 02:53 · from 2009-July.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:53:17 -0400
Subject: (urth) Auk's dimber tip to all flash coves
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Matthew
Keeley<matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about this 1811 dictionary? It has all three.
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402

That's certainly better; it has a few others - bob cull, 'scavey'
(Wolfe spells it 'scavy'), cank, to twig, mort (but does Wolfe use
mort just for women?), cits (but just in the preface, what good is
that...)

But not limer, mews, hornboy, hoppy, or bucky. Guess we need a few
more dictionaries...

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gwern

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