[Ads-l] Heard: "allege" > _allegate_

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> HDAS includes "allegator"
> (pun on "alligator") from the 19th C.
>

Yeah. You always have to go one up [not in HDAS? Then, I’m one up, too!],
don’t you? <har! har!>


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-Wilson
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