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Hellequin posted:Kitthoge, adj. & n. Left-handed or awkward, or a left-handed or awkward person. Racist. In all seriousness, as a left-handed person, the history of how languages have treated right/left handedness is interesting. Sinister comes from Latin and is simply "left". Dexter, also from Latin, meaning "right". It probably belongs in another thread but it's interesting how languages have added connotations to both words that were never present in the original.
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Lunchbox Paradox posted:Sprunt - An old Scots word meaning to chase girls around the haystack after dark My great grandfather who came to the US from Scotland in his teens used to ask me if I was doing this. I was seven.
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