eerie

[Jonathan Lighter]

I dunno.  It doesn't seem particularly "creepy" to me. Maybe "odd" or
"weird" in the weakest senses of these words.

It's hard for me to imagine an "eerie" ditty, unless I'd heard it issuing
from, say, the neck of a crater.

JL

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> FWIW, it could mean "creepy," IMO.
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> > The current film, "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" includes the following rhyme
> > which
> > is critically described by one character (no friend of B & B & B) as "an
> > eerie little" ditty:
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> > "Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible
> > crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean."
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> > Here it seems to mean something like "quaint or notable."
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