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uselessness commented on the word bodewash
Pronounced "body wash." An exfoliating formula made with lilac and lavender. Available at Bath and Body Works, and finer stores nationwide.
February 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bodewash
Don't believe a word U says. It's cow crap.
February 28, 2007
uselessness commented on the word bodewash
Aww man, why you gotta hate? Think of all the FUN we coulda had!
February 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bodewash
What? You didn't like my double entendre? Oooookaaaaayyy...never miiiiind.... *sulking*
February 28, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word bodewash
Aha! reesetee found a suitable definition! Here. (Thanks, BillCasselman.com.)
"Bodewash" warmed many an early Manitoba settler. This term for dried buffalo dung used as a fuel was borrowed from the Canadian French of fur trappers where it appeared-at first humorously-as bois de vache 'cow wood' and also in the more refined phrase bois des prairies 'prairie wood.' Buffalo chips or cow chips were both called bodewash, which is a direct Englishing of bois de vache that shows up in the rural Manitoba folk saying "squished flatter 'n a bodewash chip." Anyone who could find the chips of buffalo dung used them, since there was little wood available. Dried cattle burns with a heavy odour, while buffalo chips are relatively odourless and were in plentiful supply before the vast herds were slaughtered."
February 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bodewash
Well, I felt responsible. After all, I suggested the word in the first place, and then couldn't remember where I'd seen/read it.
Come to think of it, after reading that explanation, it *could* be used as an exfoliant....
February 28, 2007
uselessness commented on the word bodewash
Oh. Reesetee. By "it's" you were referring to my daffynition. I thought you were talking about the bodewash itself. It's all good.
Though I would have preferred that no one notice what I had written for a couple years, and then a random future person discovers it here, thinks it sounds nice, and orders a whole bunch for the health spa she owns. And then FedEx delivers a big crate of crap to her doorstep, and she comes back here to gripe about it. That would be so awesome to me. Ah well.
February 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bodewash
Gosh, u, I guess I was just thinking in the present. Silly me. One thing about this site--one has to train oneself to post with future Wordieans in mind.
You know, you could still make a go of it with bois de vache. It's French, even. :-)
February 28, 2007
sionnach commented on the word bodewash
I love this word!!!!
October 13, 2007