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From: "Bruce Todd" <>
Subject: Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 07:28:45 -0500
References: <004001c418e2$529fb3d0$0cf8eb18@wordcruncher> <003401c4193a$c86e35c0$47f0a1cd@preferred>

Sorry for the typo.

Contemptuous people can be very contemptible!

Bruce.



> > Chambers Dictionary of the English Language says -
> >
> > tit -
> >
> > - a contemptuous person
> [Bruce]
>
> Interesting. In my experience, it is used for a contemptible person, not
a
> contemptuous one! Anybody else? I wonder if the cloistered academics at
> Chambers made a mistake.
>

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  • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by Lee Quinn <>
    • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by hens <>
      • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits => bits and pieces of Aphrodite by "Israel \"izzy\" Cohen" <>
    • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Gordon Barlow" <>
      • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Bruce Todd" <>
        • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Gordon Barlow" <>

          • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Bruce Todd" <>

    • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits - Titch by Lee Quinn <>
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