Sunday, January 25, 2009

My Favorite Insult Word This Week

...is wallydraigle.

There are a lot of you about.

wallydraigle (wah-lee-dray-gul) [origin unknown] (1508) chiefly Scot : a feeble, imperfectly developed, or slovenly creature.

Yet, oddly enough, wally in Scottish means "fine or sturdy" (circa 1520).

So that new robot in the movie is aptly named.

So ladies...or gents...you might please your lover by complimenting, That's a wally cock, lad!

2 comments:

d said...

Ooh. I might have to use that.

William Keckler said...

It's almost as fun to say as "slithy toves."

Possibly more so.