[Ads-l] Pills, excrescent <-s> in nicknames addendum (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 10, 2015, at 7:10 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> My wife still calls drip-like people "pills."
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> JL

and vice versa?

LH
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> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:55 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> <pillbox> (a nuisance child, spoiled brat). A nickname/epithet my mother
>> used for my sister Susan. Intensive form of <pill> (id.) <What a pillbox!>
>> <You are such a pill!>
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