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chained_bear commented on the word ill-deedy gowk
"'Ruined, ruined, my dinner is quite ruined, and it is all the doing of that long-eared looby Figgins Pocock. There he sits, the illiterate, ill-deedy gowk, next to the Admiral's secretary.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 95
February 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ill-deedy gowk
Quite an epithet!
February 19, 2008