Redefining misanthropy for a fresh generation. Standard posts begin with a definition from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary followed by a modern adjustment. Miscellany on Wednesday and storytelling on Saturday.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Kine
KINE, n. Cows.
If kine is the plural of cow, And the plural of sow is swine, Then pumpkins may hang from a vow, And coronets rest upon brine.
2009 Update: Cattle, as they were called archaically when their skin was still suede.
This is a new one to me...in Icelandic the plural of Ku is Kyr add accent over the u and y. You are certainly adding words to my vocabulary...now I just have to find the occasion to insert Kine instead of Cows. However, with my accent people always feel they need to correct or question me when I come up with perfectly good English words they have never heard.
Kine: I had forgotten that word. Can be used interchangably with cattle, has no regard to sex of animal. ("so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen") ..
English is such an interesting language... suede = buffed nap. Do you know what the children are doing.
ReplyDeleteIf the plural of goose is geese, why do we never see herds of meese?
This is a new one to me...in Icelandic the plural of Ku is Kyr add accent over the u and y.
ReplyDeleteYou are certainly adding words to my vocabulary...now I just have to find the occasion to insert Kine instead of Cows. However, with my accent people always feel they need to correct or question me when I come up with perfectly good English words they have never heard.
Ey! Dis website is one da kine, bruddah!
ReplyDeleteOooh dinner!
ReplyDeleteKine: I had forgotten that word.
ReplyDeleteCan be used interchangably with cattle, has no regard to sex of animal. ("so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen")
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Boy. I learn all kine of things here.
ReplyDeleteTLP -- Get ridda da "of" sista. We no use dem kine words, yeah?
ReplyDeleteKINE the most versitile and oft used word on the Hawaiian Islands -- and it means whatever you dang well want it to.
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ReplyDeleteKine... I got nothing for today's word.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm... still nothing.
It rhymes with wine.
I only knew Quilly's definition, but that is why I like it here, so many definitions, and they're often accompanied by rhythm.
ReplyDeletekine is also
Okay Quilly, I kine da get it. You da best kine da kine there is.
ReplyDeleteSauerkraut, mine are out barking at coyotes, why?
ReplyDeleteFunny, Mo'a. I never considered that you have an accent. I hear absolutely no evidence of it on your blog.
Amoeba, one of these days I need to get to Hawai'i.
Ha, Jenn. At my house it just might be.
Jim, I guess if you move slow you get called a lot of names.
Kine of you to say, blogmama.
So, it's like a name, Quill?
Jientje, I can never repay learning how to pronounce jeanchoo.
And pine, JD. Yeah, we're getting to words that aren't all that funny.
Cooper, kine is fine, I opine.
TLP, saves nine?
A term for humans used by vampires.
ReplyDeleteDoug, you're not doing bad at all!
ReplyDeletewha kine da stuff goin' on here? it be 5:44 am and you kine da still in da bed?
ReplyDeleteIcy, I bet that's true. Moo.
ReplyDeleteJientje, heaven may well be in Belgium but not, I suspect, for tongues.
Blogmama, I'm kine a distracted this morning.