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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2007-10-31 07:19 am

ogerhunch

ogerhunch - n., a frightful creature, esp. a bat.


According to yesterday's Worthless Word of the Day, quoting a 1866 Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect. And if it's a 19th century dialect dictionary, you know you can trust it. Go on, trust it. You know you want to.

---L.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2007-10-31 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I do. I so do.

It makes a good expletive for arguments among children:

Get offa me, you stupid ogerhunch!