Mulligrubs
My Grandfather didn't use this word for people with "mulligrubs", instead he said they "had the sooners", that is, they'd "sooner have" something other than that which they were already blessed.
May 07, 2006, 20:42
KallehWelcome to Wordcraft, Tor!
We'd love to have you stay awhile...and post some more.
As for
mulligrubs, I hadn't heard of it. Dictionary.com's citation was for
mubblefubbles and said, "depression for no apparent reason, melancholy; also called
blue devils, mulligrubs. Then in another citation, it says "the griping of the intestines" from
mull, meaning "to squeeze, pull about, mulling numb or dull." It's an interesting word. How have you seen it used?
May 08, 2006, 06:37
shufitzWelcome, Tor.
Where was your Grandfather from? I'm betting that his usage of 'sooners' is a popular regionalism.
Does anyone have a copy of whatever-you-call-that-big-dictionary-of-regionalisms in which to look it up?
May 08, 2006, 08:42
Caterwaullerquote:
whatever-you-call-that-big-dictionary-of-regionalisms
hehehe
If you can find a title, perhaps I can find it at the library?
CW,
It's got a red cover; does that help?
May 09, 2006, 02:26
CaterwaullerLOL - just like the customers . . .
The other day I actually had someone who wanted me to help her find "those romances, you know, the ones written by that woman . . ."
May 15, 2006, 06:08
<Asa Lovejoy>You mean, the one that shows a helpless woman being held by a tall, dark, handsome stranger on the cover of the paperback? And her bodice is ripped? There, now, you can surely go right to it!
May 16, 2006, 21:14
Kallehquote:
LOL - just like the customers . . .
I will never forget a time walking into a large Borders in downtown Chicago, wanting to find a book where I remembered the color, but neither the titled nor the author. I was with my daughter and was struggling to remember the book. I told her that I was going to ask the clerk, and she was so embarrassed. "No one, Mother, is going to know the book with that description!" Yet, the clerk (quite a good-looking guy just her age) put his hands on it immediately. My daughter, who hates to be wrong, was flabbergasted.
May 21, 2006, 00:32
CaterwaullerI've done that, too - I mean, been able to identify the book from descriptions like that. Another favorite trick of mine is to ID the book from a plot description. Doesn't happen all the time, of course, but it sure is fun to do sometimes!