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(70,686 posts) Fri Mar 29, 2013, 01:16 PM Mar 2013

13 words with "awesomely weird" etymologies. Check out "fizzle"

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kater11/13-everyday-words-with-awesomely-weird-origins

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13 words with "awesomely weird" etymologies. Check out "fizzle" (Original Post) UTUSN Mar 2013 OP

I knew avodado... Scuba Mar 2013 #1

OK who ? olddots Mar 2013 #2

Haha, whoever asks... n/t UTUSN Mar 2013 #3

I knew some of them... Ron Obvious Mar 2013 #4

Sure got mortgage right................................death pledge. Fla Dem Mar 2013 #5

kibosh is awesome!! Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #6

Hi, darlin' - so where did DutchOven come from?!1 n/t UTUSN Mar 2013 #7

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. I knew avodado...

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 01:20 PM

Mar 2013

Berserk is wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

olddots

(10,237 posts)

2. OK who ?

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 01:21 PM

Mar 2013

UTUSN

(70,686 posts)

3. Haha, whoever asks... n/t

Reply to olddots (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 03:50 PM

Mar 2013

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

4. I knew some of them...

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 04:15 PM

Mar 2013

But fizzle was certainly a cool one:

Fla Dem

(23,661 posts)

5. Sure got mortgage right................................death pledge.

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 05:46 PM

Mar 2013

Sure has been for a whole lot of folks.

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

6. kibosh is awesome!!

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 07:00 PM

Mar 2013

thank you for this UTUSN

UTUSN

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7. Hi, darlin' - so where did DutchOven come from?!1 n/t

Reply to Tuesday Afternoon (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 29, 2013, 11:07 PM

Mar 2013

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