Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #59
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From: 	David or Maggie Turkheimer <drturkheimer@pipeline.com>

Subject: Re: Another miscreant bites the dust

Date: 	Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:30:56 +0000



Perhaps, a la Lewis Carroll, in "Jabberwocky", Nick was using a portmanteau

word:



aggressive + egregiouly = aggregiously



which in his case makes sense.



David Turkheimer

Team English major in former life.



At 09:30 PM 9/30/97 +0000, you wrote:

>Previously on miscreant, David Okamoto <davo@lsil.com> said...

>

>> What is "...aggregiously"?

>

>It's a mis-spelled word, but at least he used it incorrectly.

>

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>"Egregious"

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>>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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>Egregious \E*gre"gious\ (?; 277), a. [L. egregius; lit., separated or chosen

>from the herd, i. e., distinguished, excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd.

>See Gregarious.] Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense);

>-- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with

>words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an

>egregious mistake. 

>

>The egregious impudence of this fellow. --Bp. Hall. 

>

>His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected. --Milton. 

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>>From WordNet (r) 1.5 Database (wn)

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>egregious adj : conspicuously bad or offensive or reprehensible: "a crying

>shame"; "an egregious lie"; "a flagrant violation of human rights"; "gross

>injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying, flagrant, gross, rank] 

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>	-John

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