Another non-metaphor

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you talking about the stuff I would call 'sand'?


Very likely. It's mentioned in the German stuff from DE W:pedia, for which
I lazily didn't bother to provide a cite, that "Sand" is among the German
synonyms of "Augenbutter."

Another German synonym is _Matzel_, which is reminiscent of
"mattel"?/"mattle"?, an ETX BE term used for the still-viscous predecessor
of cat-butter that often oozes out of the corners of a person's eyes while
he still awake.
--
-Wilson
-----
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

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org