[AGL] words

[bakhirun bakhirun]

There's *heebie-jeebies*, which is apparently an inverted form of the
Bengali *hiji-biji *(meaning 'agitated, distracted').

Another is the Melayu (Indonesian, Malaysian) *kutu*, for insect, the origin
of *cooties*.

"Yuck, I don't want to put that on - it has her cooties all over it". These
are metaphorical bugs, not actual ones.

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2009/5/11 mwheless <tejanagitana at yahoo.com>


> gilbo.....jusgar is verb to judge

> I think it is of moor origin(basically arabs)

> English and Spanish are such rich languages made up of foreign influence

> ie English=Galic, Saxon, Pic, Irish, Welsh, Roman, Greek, etc, etc

> Hope you]re doing well.

> Marilyn Wheless

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> Free State of Menard

> Texas Hill Country

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> --- On *Mon, 5/11/09, gilbert shelton <shelton at noos.fr>* wrote:

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> From: gilbert shelton <shelton at noos.fr>

> Subject: [AGL] words

> To: ghetto2 at two.pairlist.net, austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net

> Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 10:51 AM

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> All my literate friends!

>

> The word "hoosegow" popped up recently in some message or another, and

> it makes me want to ask you if you can contribute to my list of foreign

> words in English, especially ones that are misspelled.  "Hoosegow" comes

> from "juzgado", which means "courthouse" in Spanish (the courthouse is

> in the same building as the jail).  The English and the Spanish words

> are pronounced more or less the same.

>

> Also the homonyms contest: to find the greatest number of homonyms for a

> word in English.  The highest I have been able to think of is four

> (peak, peek, pique, peke) and, if you consider "I" to be a word (I, ay,

> aye, eye).

>

> Gilbert

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