On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 16:47:07 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:18:28 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:52:36 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

Thanks, I thought it was a slang term and wouldn't be in the
dictionary.

Every (American English) dictionary I have includes slang.

But this is British, not American. g

That's why I mentioned my dialect :-)

Yes, dictionaries include some slang, but *many* slang terms are not
in them.

I'm too lazy to look in my OED (it's far away and heavy!).

You made me look it up in *my* OED. Yes, it's there.

Thanks.

In all honesty, the main reason I didn't use the OED is that I wasn't
sure which words would be good to look up, so I was chicken - that's
slang for cowardly :-)

Like ...winston, I do have an OED program, but it's old and would
require me to start my XP VM - but even then it works oddly :-(

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)