Curglaff
The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water.
-John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808.

Curgloft, panic-stricken; Banffshire.
-Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911.

Jeffrey Kacirk.

Rabbit you!

I love this...

I experienced that back in my Polar Bear Club days.

I should get one of those... it's a real improvement on the Da Vinci Code calendar I got for Christmas, which seems to be 365 pages of fact-checking, trivia and conspiracy theory.

Curglaff! seems to have some Kersplash! onomotopoeia in there too. Great word.

Other recent fun:

be blowed
You be blowed, or you go and be blowed, a vulgar form of refusal or dismissal, probably has a still coarser allusion underlying it, that of being "fly-blown," or rotting--that is, dying.
-A. Wallace's Popular Sayings Dissected, 1895.

Day of Public Humiliation
This gloomy and short-lived "holiday" was instituted in the mid-1600s by Oliver Cromwell's severe, Puritan-dominated government. Puritans subjected themselves to various forms of humiliation, such as adopting strange, biblically inspired first names. Charles Bombaugh's Gleanings for the Curious from Literature (1874) drew a representative sampling... from a 1658 Sussex juror's list: [including] Kill-sin Pimple, ...Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith White [and] a "Puritan maiden" who, when asked for hers, replied, "Through-much-tribulation-we-enter-the-kingdom-of-Heaven, but for short they call me Tribby."

Jeffrey Kacirk has written several related books and is also a chiroprator in California.

Incharitiable! you're back! good to see you. I was concerned about you/your kitty.

(apologies for thread drift)

Well... I'm okay, just spent the weekend in Newcastle with my sister (and what an interesting weekend it was too!). The kitty is, surprisingly, still here - though I've spent half the day trying to find a chemist who can fill an unusual prescription the vet said might do the trick. Most pharmacists seem very surprised at being asked to fill a veterinary prescription...
(As for the kitty - she got a last-minute reprieve. We don't know why she won't eat, but since she seems so enthusiastic about being petted, and goes to the kitchen for food, and is still playing...)

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