tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post1812585529891992413..comments2024-01-31T00:52:30.471-08:00Comments on Waking Ambrose: GawbyDoug The Unahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-39437830771899279542010-06-22T06:11:45.008-07:002010-06-22T06:11:45.008-07:00Nessa, I'm thinking of keeping it, too, Nessa....Nessa, I'm thinking of keeping it, too, Nessa.<br /><br />Jenn, not me. I think this one has risen from the dead rather than gotten born.<br /><br />Ariel, <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Gawby" rel="nofollow">this one</a> was useful to me.<br /><br />Jim, I'd say about the time the baby started calling him Gawby, or a synonym.<br /><br />Maybe, Actonbell, now that I think about it.<br /><br />TLP, apparently this was an actual word, which means the OED should consider it an actual word forever.<br /><br />Susan, it didn't take long for West Virginia to become home, did it? You gawby singin' <i>Take Me Home, Country Road,</i> 'fore long.<br /><br />Karen, if you try I think you'll find it's easy to roll your eyes in a sentence. I do it probably daily.<br /><br />Logo, only you tastemakers can decide that.<br /><br />You don't say, Karen. (See how easy that was?)<br /><br />Amoeba, it is a long list.Doug The Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04753071669562594194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-44528536551480689172010-06-22T00:52:31.032-07:002010-06-22T00:52:31.032-07:00Oi mates, reckon the word's part of the lingo ...Oi mates, reckon the word's part of the lingo in civilised societies. It's a right good word to use for the blokes who run BP, or the ones at the former Minerals Management Service who sold ... er, issued ... their offshore oil drilling permits. <br /><br />Or maybe it should be used for those blokes who see the pics of all them oil-slicked goony birds, and then get in their land boats and drive 50 miles to the jogging track to get their exercise.the amoebahttp://ocquill.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-59246737783631122212010-06-21T18:00:32.025-07:002010-06-21T18:00:32.025-07:00alicia keys plays eighty ~ eight keysalicia keys plays eighty ~ eight keysk. riggs gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-2786357569145116382010-06-21T15:49:01.576-07:002010-06-21T15:49:01.576-07:00It's not even cool by virtue of being retro?It's not even cool by virtue of being retro?Logophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05791617221187190709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-33680394713210935102010-06-21T14:31:46.142-07:002010-06-21T14:31:46.142-07:00is it possible to roll ones eyes in a sentence
w...is it possible to roll ones eyes in a sentence<br /> <br />was gawby supposed to be a question<br /><br />unbelievably <br /><br />the word veri is fuhgeddaboutitk. riggs gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-44816054850929806422010-06-21T13:26:55.939-07:002010-06-21T13:26:55.939-07:00Ask my neighbors about this one; it's really a...Ask my neighbors about this one; it's really a verb, overheard quite often while shopping at Walmart:<br /><br />"Y'all stop messin' round, heah? --or ya gawby in a heap o' trouble."<br /><br />Yes, it's good to be home again.Susan at Stony Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385202649291774852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-42410715929824327692010-06-21T13:25:47.321-07:002010-06-21T13:25:47.321-07:00It's Monday already? Nobody tells me anything...It's Monday already? Nobody tells me anything. <br /><br />Okay, Gawby. This is an actual word? Is it what Gomer Pyle used to say, <i> well, Gawwwlleee?</i>TLPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02837578489728318423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-81733778958569532832010-06-21T08:11:58.355-07:002010-06-21T08:11:58.355-07:00Gaw´by (gạ´bŷ)
n. 1. A baby; a dunce
I'd rat...Gaw´by (gạ´bŷ)<br />n. 1. A baby; a dunce <br /><br />I'd rather a dunce only. Wouldn't want the poor baby to grow up being confused with the dunces. When would a person stop calling his baby Gawby?<br />..<br /><br />8:11 AMJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982249173214655060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-6340120090368683872010-06-21T08:10:24.498-07:002010-06-21T08:10:24.498-07:00When you google gawby to learn what it means, Waki...When you google gawby to learn what it means, Waking Ambrose comes up on the 8th place, and is as a useful help as the previous 7 ones. :-PAriel the Thiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15097086287609287362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-85915655301264976922010-06-21T07:17:48.536-07:002010-06-21T07:17:48.536-07:00Making up words again, hm?
I like it.Making up words again, hm?<br /><br />I like it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11152564.post-29908048247132534212010-06-21T06:50:28.586-07:002010-06-21T06:50:28.586-07:00My newest favorite word.My newest favorite word.Nessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779269921583131094noreply@blogger.com