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Tune your TV to one of the news channels, pour yourself a good stiff drink, and settle back in an armchair for an hour or so of dustsceawung.
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There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilisation - dustsceawung, "meaning contemplation of dust.
fbharjo commented on the word dustsceawung
dustsceawung contemplation of dust (in Old English)
January 25, 2007
shii commented on the word dustsceawung
We should probably do more of this
December 2, 2007
john commented on the word dustsceawung
I do this all the time. In lieu of cleaning :-)
December 2, 2007
reesetee commented on the word dustsceawung
That goes hand in hand with sneezesceawung.
December 2, 2007
fbharjo commented on the word dustsceawung
There is a word in Old English which
belongs wholly to that civilisation—
“dustsceawung,” meaning contemplation
of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-
Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that
consciousness which considered
transience and loss to be part of the human
estate; it was a world in which life was
uncertain and the principal deity was fate
or destiny or “wyrd.”
Peter Ackroyd -- Albion
October 12, 2012