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prettygoodwordacnestis - n., the part of a mammal's skin that it cannot reach to scratch.
Between the shoulder blades. The 1828 Webster's Dictionary gives the etymology "Gr[eek] a priv. to rub or gnaw" -- which I think should be unpacked to mean a-, meaning not, as a prefix to the stem.
---L.
Between the shoulder blades. The 1828 Webster's Dictionary gives the etymology "Gr[eek] a priv. to rub or gnaw" -- which I think should be unpacked to mean a-, meaning not, as a prefix to the stem.
---L.
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Date: 2009-01-23 04:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 06:09 pm (UTC)---L.