[Dixonary] Round 1625, POUSSETTE: Scores

[Dodi Schultz]

>> Congrats on the D0 - a great round

Thanks, John.

>> I guess if Amer Heritage talk about a country dance and you get a D0
>> then I shouldn't expect anything for a do-si-do !!!

I was astonished, given the actual definition, by yours. And by Dan's
defining it as another kind of dance. Sometimes those strange coincidences
happen--like two defs having to do with bicycles, too. (The purses/pouches
weren't as surprising, of course, since "poussette" suggests both.) But for
future reference: "do-si-do" is strictly a noun (a dance figure, like a
poussette), not a verb.

>> It is amazing how words are used looked it up in a Larouse Fr
>> Dictionary - it is a pincushion (direct translation)

Yes, that's revealed by AHD, too. Actually, Tim Lodge's def, with the
bicycle propelled specifically by PUSHING, was thus the only one relying on
the actual etymology.

--Dodi

[John Barrs]

Dodi>

>But for future reference: "do-si-do" is strictly a noun (a dance figure, like a poussette), not a verb.

My only knowledge of it is as a call 'do-si-do your partners' which sounds to me like a command or instruction; and hence a verb

JohnnyB [using email; via corypaheus/yahoogroups]

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[Tim Lodge]

Dodi

--- In coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, Dodi Schultz <schultz@c...> wrote:
>Actually, Tim Lodge's def, with the bicycle propelled specifically by
>PUSHING, was thus the only one relying on the actual etymology.
>

It's sometimes a great disadvantage in this game to have been educated
at a French Lycée!

BTW, congratulations again on the D0. I got a bit confused this
morning, and deleted the congratulatory message I sent you, thinking
it was the def I'd just sent Toni. It came out on the digest, though,
so you probably got it by email.

-- Tim L