query: "sweet porbell"

[Grant Barrett]

On Jul 26, 2007, at 08:48, Marc Sacks wrote:

> All I could think of was the French "pourbelles"; "sortir les
> pourbelles"
> means to take out the trash.

Yeah, but the word is "poubelle." None of my French dictionaries show
a term of affection related to the word.

Grant Barrett
Double-Tongued Dictionary
http://www.doubletongued.org/
editor at doubletongued.org

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