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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Non-words we already know the meanings of (couth)
Message-ID: <393@persci.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 11:16:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.393
Posted: Tue Sep 10 11:16:31 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:42:08 EDT
References: <465@petfe.UUCP> <134@yale.ARPA>
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan)
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Summary: 

In article <134@yale.ARPA> folta@yale.ARPA (Stephen Folta) writes:
>	Anyone ever consider all the words that aren't words, but if these
>	words were words, we'd already know what they meant?  (Huh?)
>	Others might be on-handed, couth...
Whoa! Looking in my dictionary..

couth (kooth) Obs. past & past part. of CAN; specif., part. adj.
  Known; familiar; noted.  Cf. UNCOUTH

Obsolete it may be, but it's a word. 
Other bizarre definitions from the dictionary:

Y'all know that "baggie" is a brand name for a certain little plastic bag
usually used for sandwiches, etc.. Well, I found it in the dictionary (this
dictionary is only a year older than I am, it certainly predates wide-spread
use of plastics):

bag'gie (bag'i; beg'i) n. Chiefly Scot. The belly.

..out of one Baggie into another, yum!..

-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill