- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@miscoranda.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:12:40 +0000
- To: "~:'' ありがとうございました。" <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Cc: www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:22 AM, <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com> wrote: > is Cheshire your sole objection? Oh come now, at least you could see his smile! "A. 1. b. slang (chiefly N. Amer.). A sweet or effeminate male; (in later use chiefly) a weakling, a coward, a sissy." - The Oxford English Dictionary I suppose it is sad that a word meaning effeminate should naturally come to evolve a sense with only the pejorative connotations of cowardace, but them's the breaks man. Etymologically speaking, it's only very distantly related to the word for cat. Milton wasn't an (A. 1. b., noun) pussy. -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/
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