"scumble" [Was: Inconsistent taboos on Fox News]

Tue Oct 30 22:28:58 UTC 2007

At 10/30/2007 12:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>On one show they both refused to utter it and scumbled the word on  the board.

As my mother the high school English teacher told me, learn a new
word every day.  Thanks, JL.

And OED2 does not have this non-artistic sense.

Joel

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