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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

Oh, oh, oh! I have to break out my copy of Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. How about "feculent"? It means foul, dreggy, excrementious. " I like "fopdoodle." too. A fool, an insignificant wretch.

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

Thanks for the recommendation!

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

It's now on my Christmas list.

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

Wonderful! I think you’ll enjoy it.

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

Feculent fopdoodle is going on my list! I am searching for a copy of Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. A must-have!

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

Someone gave the book to me as a Christmas gift.

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Somewhere lurks the dreaded p p.p..p..p..Python!

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

I was going to use an emoji of said animal, but decided that would be mean. I had a colleague who hated spiders. If one crawled onto her window OUTSIDE the building, she would put a post-it over it. Props, I say.

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