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Friday word: Ramfeezled

Nov. 18th, 2017 at 7:33 AM

Ramfeezled
(ram-FEE-zul’d)
Adjective:
-To be exhausted with work, to be worn out.
-More than just a bit knackered.
Verb (Ramfeezle)
-To wear oneself out.

Scottish

Used in a sentence:
“I’m going to have to cancel our dinner engagement, I’m completely ramfeezled; perhaps tomorrow night?”

Anyone remember "forswunke"?

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(cross-posting from

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Tags: vocabulary

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spikesgirl58.livejournal.com

Nov. 18th, 2017 02:28 pm (UTC)

I have got to remember this world.

med_cat

Nov. 21st, 2017 09:22 pm (UTC)

It's a good one, isn't it? ;) Pleased you found it interesting.

spikesgirl58.livejournal.com

Nov. 21st, 2017 09:58 pm (UTC)

It's glorious!

med_cat

Nov. 22nd, 2017 12:12 pm (UTC)

;)

elenbarathi.livejournal.com

Nov. 18th, 2017 07:47 pm (UTC)

LOL, never heard 'ramfeezled' before - 'forswunke' I had to look up, but found that I have heard the verb it came from, swinke, because it's in a lot of old ballads, usually rhyming with think (or 'thinke', as the case may be.)

I was thinking I might have heard some version of 'forswunke' in Yiddish, but I don't find anything close enough on this list (http://www.hobonickels.org/yiddish.htm). That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, of course; Yiddish is a vast and complex language, and my knowledge of it is slight and faulty.

Hey, do you know

mount_oregano? Check her out; she's a science fiction writer and a translator (of Spanish) with a lot of cool stuff on her Lj. My own Spanish is dreck (though not as pitiful as my Russian!) but that doesn't signify.

In truth, y'know, if it was not for Lj I would despair: my local friends are wonderful folk and I love them a lot, but none of them speak/read anything but English, and they're not all so great even at that. The Olympic Peninsula abounds in natural beauty, but it's not exactly a hotbed of intellectualism.

med_cat

Nov. 21st, 2017 09:24 pm (UTC)

Not heard of either "ramfeezled" or "forswunke"; makes sense re: "swinke", that's from Middle English.

I shall check out the LJ you mention.

And yes, I've certainly met a lot of interesting and diverse folks via LJ in general and SH fandom in particular, as well.