fraught

[Jonathan Lighter]

Maybe, Charlie, but I think it amounts to the same thing.

Anyway, they're using it a lot: I've seen it in the _New Yorker_ and heard
it on CNN.
New to me.

JL
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Maybe rather than being elliptical for the idiomatic phrase, the use of
> "fraught" just recovers the older sense of 'freighted' ('burdened' or
> 'carrying baggage')?
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:59:13 -0400
> >From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject: fraught
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> >I can't find it in the Archives.  Short for "fraught with difficulties or
> complications." Here's an ex. from a learned colleague:
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> >2009 Brian Boyd _On the Origin of Stories_ (Cambridge: Belknap) 56: If
> cooperation is is fairly easy to establish, yet already fraught, among close
> kin, how can it extend even among non-kin?
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> >No earlier instance of "fraught" in the book.  My impression is that it's
> becoming a bit faddish in the media.
> >
> >JL
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