[Lexicog] Whales: bulls and cows (was: circular definitions)

[Mike Maxwell]

Translation MALI wrote:
> What would you do with "to have a whale of a time" in your dictionary?

Something's fishy here.

All seriousness aside, I would probably list it under 'whale' (with maybe a
cross reference under 'time').  I don't have a clue as to whether it's
dialectal or (semi-)standard, if that's what you were asking.

    Mike Maxwell
    Linguistic Data Consortium
    maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu



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