bodily

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> bodily

FWIW, _bodily_ occurs in the BE of Marshall, TX, as an adjective used
of a particular body-type:

"He's very _bodily_"

It's used to described a phenotype like unto those of Vince Wilfork
and William "The Refrigerator" Perry. A boy matching the "Husky"
phenotype of the cartoon-character, Bobby Hill, is also described as
"Bodily."
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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