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"Right On"... Lizzie... Hep cats indeed...
And what might that German word be?Seemingly not dying out:
What you in english language name "tenacious/persistent".
And what might that German word be?
I'm sure that some see it as pretentious, but I enjoy sprinkling non-English words into my speech. Since two of my great-grandfathers were German immigrants (a Hessian shoemaker and an East Prussian farmer) "low German" (Plattdeutsch) words did crop up in my grandmother's speech when I was a child.
A "butt" is a large barrel (all barrels were wood until the late 19th Century) which contained wine, two hogsheads in volume. Turn an empty butt on it's side and paint concentric circles on the bottom, and, voila! An archer's target.Butts (butts were the targets used in archery. Someone named Butts either made targets or took care of the butts at the village archery range.)
A "butt" is a large barrel (all barrels were wood until the late 19th Century) which contained wine, two hogsheads in volume. Turn an empty butt on it's side and paint concentric circles on the bottom, and, voila! An archer's target.
"Dude". Although the connotation has changed, the exchange of calling a guy "dude" has remained through the years.
I heard "Tickety Boo" last week.