LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.04.20 (04) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Lexicon" [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Lexicon
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> Isn't "to hunker" ('to squat by sitting on one's haunches') a general
> English word?  Might it be on its way out, and that's the reason why there
> are doubts about it and it is absent from a few dictionaries?

This is very much a Scots word. In Scots the "hunkers" are the haunches or
backs of the thighs, and rather than saying "hunker down" we say eg, "git
doun on yer hunkers".

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Lexicon" [E]

> From: Reuben Epp <reuben at silk.net>
> Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.04.19 (02) [E]
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> The word 'Stoop' is actually quite commonly-used in the Plautdietsch
> dialect. It is a step or landing before the entrance to a house. A more

This would seem to relate to an (American) English use of the word that I've
often wondered about. In the Laurel and Hardy film "The Music Box", the long
flight of stairs on the grassy slope that they attempt to haul the piano up
is referred to as a "stoop".

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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