Gruntled
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Re: Gruntled
I think I'm glad you're not a builder.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Holes, windows, same difference... and not necessarily in a building, correct.
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That's as maybe (although I have it down as making holes in summat), but to defenestrate a fellow specifically means to throw him through a window.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Fenestrated is an english word - it means to have windows.Bruce Rioja wrote:Is there an opposite of defenestration?
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That's right. The Defenestrations of Prague are particularly well known.Bruce Rioja wrote:That's as maybe (although I have it down as making holes in summat), but to defenestrate a fellow specifically means to throw him through a window.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Fenestrated is an english word - it means to have windows.Bruce Rioja wrote:Is there an opposite of defenestration?
The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of seven members of the city council by a crowd in July 1419.
The Second Defenestration occured in 1618 when the two Catholic Regents of bohemia and their secretary were thrown from a 70 foot high window. Miraculously all three survived having landed on a dung hill.
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But to answer your query, I'd have thought the opposite of being thrown through a window, i.e. to enter through a window, and not be thrown but to do so under one's own power, well yes, that's usually called burglary, but can also be called infenestration, I suppose.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:That's right. The Defenestrations of Prague are particularly well known.Bruce Rioja wrote:That's as maybe (although I have it down as making holes in summat), but to defenestrate a fellow specifically means to throw him through a window.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Fenestrated is an english word - it means to have windows.Bruce Rioja wrote:Is there an opposite of defenestration?
The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of seven members of the city council by a crowd in July 1419.
The Second Defenestration occured in 1618 when the two Catholic Regents of Bohemia and their secretary were thrown from a 70 foot high window. Miraculously all three survived having landed on a dung hill.
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A man of your word!Lost Leopard Spot wrote:(de) Ranged.
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My face is drawn back in a rictus of triumph.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Plus
(de) Posed.
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(de) Lighted?Bruce Rioja wrote:My face is drawn back in a rictus of triumph.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Plus
(de) Posed.
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Re: Gruntled
I don't understand. Are not 'lighted' and 'posed' perfectly good English words? What are the rules again, Spotty?Enoch wrote:(de) Lighted?Bruce Rioja wrote:My face is drawn back in a rictus of triumph.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Plus
(de) Posed.
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Posed is a perfectly good word but is not the same as to be posed, slightly unseated, almost overthrown, nearly dethroned, which isn't a word at all. Hence why it has a place on the list. But arguments for its removal are valid, if you so wish to object. That'd take the grin off Bruce's faceMontreal Wanderer wrote:I don't understand. Are not 'lighted' and 'posed' perfectly good English words? What are the rules again, Spotty?Enoch wrote:(de) Lighted?Bruce Rioja wrote:My face is drawn back in a rictus of triumph.Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Plus
(de) Posed.
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