Word Of The Day

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  1. Hedi Mitchell

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    Fixing

    A staple Texas word, and maybe elsewhere, especially among anglos, both educated and under-schooled, as in:
    "I'm fixing to put my boot where the sun don't shine." or
    "I'm fixing to go to the store, shall I pick up a bottle of wine?"

    Of course, we wouldn't think of using the word up here in Oklahoma.
     
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    Broke
    If you hadn't broke it, you wouldn't have to be fixin' it. :D
     
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    Stuffed.

    Too much Mexican food.
     
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    Flatulence
    Too many beans .:D
     
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    :)
     
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    Clabberhead

    Mamawa ..this was her favorite word.
    I would update this word for you..in my today words...but why steal her glory;)
     
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    Anticipation
     
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    I remember my grandma making clabber from fresh milk. She used it in baking. :D I haven't heard that in a long time.
     
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    counter-intuitive *)

    *) fridge-freezer manual :eek:
     
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    Oh yea ! :p
     
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    Miscreant
    (always think of Dickens with this word)
     
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    Oh yeah, quite gloomy stuff.
     
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