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Joel Berson
berson at ATT.NET
Mon Feb 27 16:17:54 UTC 2017
Didn't we "throw ourselves down *with* a sled", rather than "on"? That is, while holding it beneath oneself, not while it was already on the ground. Or more formally, "throw oneself down on the ground with a sled".
Joel
From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>From DARE entry, s.v. bunk, v. 1:
1 To throw oneself down on a sled.
2 usu with into: To bump into; to meet (someone) accidentally. New York City, esp Brooklyn
I’m familiar with sense 2 from growing up in NYC. (Born [1945] and lived in [1945-57] Manhattan). Don’t recall “bunk” in sense 1, although we did throw ourselves down on sleds.
LH
> On Feb 26, 2017, at 2:57 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Oh yes! My grandmother (b. NYC 1888) used to say "bunk into", which I
> thought very strange. I don't recall hearing it from anyone else, though.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2017 9:25 AM, "Jonathan Lighter" wrote:
>
> RE "Trunk."
>
> IN NYC English, a vert frequent var. of "bump" is/was "bunk."
>
> Cf., perhaps, to "bonk."
>
> JL
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