The Word of the Day Thread
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
like the time you tried to wangle your way into a concert by pretending to be the singer's sister
Ah yes, I remember that episode well.
In retrospect I should have shaved.
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@boner I was too busy wangling the singer's sister
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@zecc said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Catching up on a few months of unread posts in this thread, I happened upon this one. This word has a special place in my vocabulary. But not a good one.
I became acquainted with this word when negotiating the support agreement with my ex-wife. Spousal support typically ends when the receiving ex-spouse remarries, and California Family Code (CFC) section [numbers] provides for reducing or terminating it if the ex-spouse maintains a "meretricious relationship," but uses its own special definition of "meretricious" in section [other numbers] (more on that in a moment). Her lawyer put language in the agreement that I would not seek to reduce or terminate her support if she did that. When I challenged her as to why she would want that in the agreement, as it flew in the face of the morality she claimed to believe in, she 1) blamed it on her lawyer, and 2) became quite irate at the suggestion that she might consider doing such a thing. Foolishly believing 2), I reluctantly allowed the language to remain in the agreement. To be fair, she may only have known of the dictionary definition (though if that's true, her lawyer didn't do the job of explaining that he should have done), not the special definition in the CFC, though that is the definition I was thinking of while I was talking to her. CFC defines a "meretricious relationship" as (paraphrased) living with a person of the opposite sex and sharing expenses, "but not just roommates."
After a bunch of back-and-forth, we came up with an agreement I was willing to sign. (I was still getting screwed, but not nearly as badly as the initial version her lawyer came up with.) I got it notarized and put it in the mail. That night my daughter tells me the "secret" that they're already planning to move in with my ex's boyfriend. So that's why you wanted me unable to renegotiate support in case of a "meretricious relationship."
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@boner These guys are pretty cheeky for a dictionary.
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@boomzilla Does "cheeky" have much traction in the US? I once had to explain what it means to a woman from Houston; she'd been called cheeky as wasn't sure if she should be offended. Best I could do was "it depends on context, but if it didn't sound like an insult it probably was".
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@masonwheeler said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Here's your sign!
The jerk store called. They're running out of you
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@boomzilla Does "cheeky" have much traction in the US? I once had to explain what it means to a woman from Houston; she'd been called cheeky as wasn't sure if she should be offended. Best I could do was "it depends on context, but if it didn't sound like an insult it probably was".
It's not terribly common in my experience.
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
Does "cheeky" have much traction in the US?
Zero. Only people who watch UK TV will have heard it, and most of them probably don't know what it means. I don't really know what it means, and I've watched tons of British TV. (Oh, also I think Austin Powers said it in that dumb movie.)
Ditto that with "chuffed", which to my American ears sounds like some sexual innuendo, and "knackered" which, also, sounds like some sexual innuendo.
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@boner said in The Word of the Day Thread:
@boomzilla Does "cheeky" have much traction in the US? I once had to explain what it means to a woman from Houston; she'd been called cheeky as wasn't sure if she should be offended. Best I could do was "it depends on context, but if it didn't sound like an insult it probably was".
It's fairly common in my region.
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@blakeyrat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
and "knackered" which, also, sounds like some sexual innuendo.
In my mind, at least, that seems to come from its similarity to "knickers," and if you know the British meaning of that, the sexual connection is obvious.
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@blakeyrat said in The Word of the Day Thread:
"knackered" which, also, sounds like some sexual innuendo.
adj: beat, bushed, jiggered, pooped, shagged, spent
I think you're onto something there.
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when you're young and
malleableable to be pounded
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