http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/2813 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:09:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/2813/comment-page-1#comment-5045 Lee Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:45:09 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/2813#comment-5045 Spifflicated my not be a true word (I didn't take the time to look it up in the dictionary) but I have seen it in at least one of O'Henry's short stories. of course it was being used by a character whose words were largely made up. Spifflicated my not be a true word (I didn’t take the time to look it up in the dictionary) but I have seen it in at least one of O’Henry’s short stories. of course it was being used by a character whose words were largely made up.

]]> http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/2813/comment-page-1#comment-4901 andrew mac Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:39:38 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/2813#comment-4901 i've not heard "muggins" used to describe a scoundrel but we in england use it and its diminutive "mug" to describe someone who is easily fooled, the ever inventive cockernees even use it as a verb "don't mug me off you slaaaaag" they shout from their foggy tenements with outside loos i’ve not heard “muggins” used to describe a scoundrel but we in england use it and its diminutive “mug” to describe someone who is easily fooled, the ever inventive cockernees even use it as a verb “don’t mug me off you slaaaaag” they shout from their foggy tenements with outside loos

]]> http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/2813/comment-page-1#comment-4889 Laurie Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:18:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/2813#comment-4889 Spondulix, antapology,spifflicated Spondulix, antapology,spifflicated

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