"There will be no new operating licence for this coupist TV channel - the measure has been drafted so go turn off the equipment." --Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, as translated by BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6215815.stm
a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself.
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jjnoel commented on the word coupist
"There will be no new operating licence for this coupist TV channel - the measure has been drafted so go turn off the equipment." --Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, as translated by BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6215815.stm
December 30, 2006
jjnoel commented on the word sin-eater
a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
December 30, 2006
jjnoel commented on the word saltwhite
"A corpse rising saltwhite from the undertow, bobbing landward, a pace a pace a porpoise." --James Joyce _Ulysses_
December 22, 2006