"I'd be mair vauntie o' my hap, Douce hingin' owre my curple, Than ony ermine ever lap, Or proud imperial purple."
by Robert Burns Hurple and Curple are both in the OED. A curple is a horse's arse. Interestingly enough, in same Scots dialects purple also rhymes with orange. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Joseph McAllister > Sent: 02 December 2008 22:20 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO: Silly rhymes > > > On Dec 2, 2008, at 13:13 , mike wilson wrote: > > > David J Brooks wrote: > > > >> Try rhyming purple:-) > >> > >> > > > > I fell down the stairs > > And now I hurple. > > You should see the bruises > > They're really purple. > > Jimmy. > > > > http://wordie.org/words/hurple > > > Hurple > > Word not found in the Dictionary and Encyclopedia.Did you mean: > > purple > Murple > hurtle > hurdle > Huple > Burple > > From the Wordie; > > Wordie [wûrd • ē] > Like Flickr, but without the photos. > > Scots - walk with a limp; hobble > > > Hurple: > > A verb meaning to hunch one's shoulders, scrunch down one's neck and > shiver, vainly trying to make one's self as small as possible while > walking through the cold without one's long underwear. Easily > spotted > in Chicago and surrounding environs. I hurple. You hurple. > That funny- > looking guy in the business suit without a coat looking for a > taxi in > December is hurpling. > > > However, no definition was found in any dictionary that was > official, > only wiki-like. > > So it doesn't count in my book... > > By the way, there are the rhyming words located above.. : ) > > > Joseph McAllister > Lots of gear, too much time > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
