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I don't drink vermouth, I dump it on my head hoping it will color my hair, as curglaff hits and I finally know what the word means.
Hitting Cold Words Meg Pokrass 2011
reesetee commented on the word curglaff
the shock one feels when plunging into cold water
February 23, 2007
missanthropist commented on the word curglaff
Curgloft, confounded, and bumbaz'd,
On east and west by turns he gazed.
As ship that's tossed with stormy weather,
Drives on, the pilot knows not whither.
William Meston's Poetical Works, 1767
May 17, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word curglaff
(noun) - (1) The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water.
--John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1879
(2) Curgloft, panic-struck. Banffshire.
--Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911
(3) Curgloft, confounded and bumbaz'd,
On east and west by turns he gazed.
As ship that's tost with stormy weather,
Drives on, the pilot knows not whither.
--William Meston's Poetical Works, 1767
January 15, 2018