Re: grockle
From: Dylan Sung (dylanwhs.tsktsktsk_at_pacific.net.hk)
Date: 12/18/04
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:17:06 -0000
"Pieter Z." <zazaza@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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> "benlizross" <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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>> Unclassifiable things, objets, trinkets...I guess chachkas is not that
>> different. For me it suggests things of uncertain purpose or value
>> that your elderly uncle brought back from the Far East and that sit on
>> shelves gathering dust.
>
> And a fine explanation too, the kind of thing no dictionary will tell
> you. Thanks.
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19970616
Dyl.
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