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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007What is a good word for lazy bum?
My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a upper and lower GI. He slept until 2PM and did not go to the appointment. He lives with his parents and uses his mom's car for transportation. He has asked my niece to miss work and take him tomorrow. He even had her to call and reschedule the appointment. What is a good word for him being dependant on her? What is a good word for the opposite of independent? The Terry entity posted thusly: >My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a >upper and lower GI. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >What is a good word for the opposite of independent? Leech. > What is a good word for him being dependant on her? > > What is a good word for the opposite of independent? "DPD individual" -- see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_personality_disorder Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego > My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a > upper and lower GI. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > What is a good word for the opposite of independent? A parasite, a moocher, a ne'er-do-well. -- Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. "I once asked a senior staffer of a brilliant Senator why the Senator didn't take a stronger position in favor of Net Neutrality. 'No Senator remains a Senator opposing an industry with that much money' was his answer." Lawrence Lessig, Lessig Blog, December 24, 2006 http://www.lessig.org/blog/ >> My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a >> upper and lower GI. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > A parasite, a moocher, a ne'er-do-well. I am surprised at you, Franke. Far too emotive a term. Laid-back, perhaps, or "of the leisured classes". A person who sits and considers before he acts. Indeed, a philosopher. Richard Chambers Leeds UK. > >> My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a > >> upper and lower GI. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > or "of the leisured classes". A person who sits and considers before he > acts. Indeed, a philosopher. I am, withal, an emotionally shakey-breaky philosopher. But I have two jobs and depend only on myself, my friends, and anyone willing to support me. -- Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor Native speaker of American English; posting from Taiwan. "This knowledge of the non-freedom of the will protects me from losing my good humor and taking much too seriously myself and my fellow humans as acting and judging individuals," Albert Einstein. http://tinyurl.com/yc9zzq >>>>My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a >>>>upper and lower GI. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > I am, withal, <applause> an emotionally shakey-breaky philosopher. But I have two > jobs and depend only on myself, my friends, and anyone willing to > support me. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > humans as acting and judging individuals," Albert Einstein. > http://tinyurl.com/yc9zzq  SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) > >>>>My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a > >>>>upper and lower GI. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Laura > (emulate St. George for email) I am a peripatetic leather worker, with awl. Have awl, will travel. >> > I am, withal, >> >> <applause> >> >> an emotionally shakey-breaky philosopher. > I am a peripatetic leather worker, with awl. Have awl, will travel. Withal, thou art a cobbler, AICMFP. SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. >>>>I am, withal, >>> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Withal, thou art a cobbler, AICMFP. No, he just writes cobblers. Which is apparently also the name of a drink, according to OED: A drink made of wine, sugar, lemon, and pounded ice, and imbibed through a straw or other tube’ (Bartlett Dict. Amer.). What other sort of tube would you drink through? SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >>>>>I am, withal, >>>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > What other sort of tube would you drink through? Bartlett Dict. Amer. (i.e. Bartlett, John R. Dictionary of Americanisms 1848, 1859, 1860, 1876, saith the OED bibliography) was compiled back when straws were straws. A couple of online sources relate that the paper drinking straw was invented in 1888. But the question remains, what other sorts of tubes were around? Presumably our Victorian forebears didn't go about in beaverskin-covered beer tophats with gutta-percha tubing. Or do I presume too much? I would guess that glass or ceramic tubes could have been used for drinking, and might have been considered non-straws. SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. [...] > But the question remains, what other sorts of tubes were around? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I would guess that glass or ceramic tubes could have been used > for drinking, and might have been considered non-straws. Some drinks are served up with cinnamon sticks or hollow candy sticks to be used as straws. Signaturerzed >[...] > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Some drinks are served up with cinnamon sticks or hollow candy sticks >to be used as straws. Some AUEers have been known to suck port up through chocolate finger biscuits. (Photos at http://alt-usage-english.org/boink_may05/index.html ) SignatureRobin Herts, England [...] > > No, he just writes cobblers. > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > I would guess that glass or ceramic tubes could have been used for drinking, > and might have been considered non-straws. Perhaps there were non-straw alternatives in the colonies: "Bearer, bring the burra sahib a fresh chota womba for his cobbler, juldee!" Or more economical households used the more durable reed? Or the less economical ones had nice silver ones, like the flash gauchos' bombilla for maté? FTR, I can't be the only denizen who's actually been provided with real straw straws -- chiefly sur le continong, but also once in the UK. Note also the Cooperian cobbler: a delicious variation on the pie or crumble theme, with scone dough instead of pastry. I find results better with separate small rounds instead of an overall blanket. SignatureMike. > Note also the Cooperian cobbler: a delicious variation on the pie or > crumble theme, with scone dough instead of pastry. I find results > better with separate small rounds instead of an overall blanket. Goodness, I have always assumed that small rounds were the only way to do it! A blanket approach must be horribly heavy and you wouldn't get the juice bubbling up. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) > > Note also the Cooperian cobbler: a delicious variation on the pie or > > crumble theme, with scone dough instead of pastry. I find results [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > do it! A blanket approach must be horribly heavy and you wouldn't get > the juice bubbling up. Perhaps it's the modern version -- paving over the cobblestones. SignatureSML > > > Note also the Cooperian cobbler: a delicious variation on the pie or > > > crumble theme, with scone dough instead of pastry. I find results [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Perhaps it's the modern version -- paving over the cobblestones. No, just my ignorant first attempt: I didn't have a recipe. There was indeed an unsatisfactory sog. SignatureMike. >>>I am a peripatetic leather worker, with awl. Have awl, will travel. >> Withal, thou art a cobbler, AICMFP. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >What other sort of tube would you drink through? Is this a quiz? Reader, I was there. Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers, and any port in a storm: http://alt-usage-english.org/boink_may05/index.html I'm very partial to a nice Herdwick. SignaturePaul In bocca al Lupo! >>>> I am a peripatetic leather worker, with awl. Have awl, will travel. >>> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > http://alt-usage-english.org/boink_may05/index.html Yes, I had forgotten all about that, and great fun it was, too. But I don't think that a chocolate finger really counts as a tube. The liquid eventually came through if you sucked quite hard (I think the pictures show that) but only because the fingers are porous, not because they have a hole down the middle which I think a tube must have. > I'm very partial to a nice Herdwick. Be careful, you might get a rather odd reputation if you go round saying things like that. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >> http://alt-usage-english.org/boink_may05/index.html > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >show that) but only because the fingers are porous, not because they >have a hole down the middle which I think a tube must have. But also because we broke or bit the ends off, which made them more tubaceous. SignatureKaty Jennison spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ >>> What other sort of tube would you drink through? >> Is this a quiz? Reader, I was there. Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers, >>and any port in a storm: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >show that) but only because the fingers are porous, not because they >have a hole down the middle which I think a tube must have. Let's call it a labyrinthine tube. It will have cleared as time, and port, passed, though some further research may be indicated. >> I'm very partial to a nice Herdwick. > >Be careful, you might get a rather odd reputation if you go round >saying things like that. My name says it all. I was thinking of nothing but the extraordinarily delicious Herdwick lamb shanks served at the White Lion in Patterdale -- worth a detour, as M. Bibendum says. Besides, they do have nice friendly faces (carefully typed). SignaturePaul In bocca al Lupo! >>>> What other sort of tube would you drink through? > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Let's call it a labyrinthine tube. It will have cleared as time, and > port, passed, though some further research may be indicated. I think you're right. We need an organiser. >>> I'm very partial to a nice Herdwick. >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > worth a detour, as M. Bibendum says. Besides, they do have nice > friendly faces (carefully typed). I agree but if I mention that I quite like sheep I may be overwhelmed by kind gifts. There are a great many penguins being given away with washing powder at the moment and they all seem to be ending up in my house. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) > Paul Wolff wrote: >> LFS writes >>>> I'm very partial to a nice Herdwick. >>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > washing powder at the moment and they all seem to be ending up in my > house. There's a penguin who has been living at our house for about twenty years. http://home.comcast.net/~skitt99/penguin.jpg SignatureSkitt Like you say... a idea what unclips every blind flask of unspired geraniums what ever I is had. --Churchy La Femme >>> LFS writes > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > There's a penguin who has been living at our house for about twenty years. > http://home.comcast.net/~skitt99/penguin.jpg Ah, bless! He is a good deal cuter than my current collection. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >No, he just writes cobblers. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >What other sort of tube would you drink through? A licorice straw. A chocolate finger. A brandy snap, if you can get a good enough seal. SignatureLinz Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford My accent may vary >>No, he just writes cobblers. >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > A licorice straw. A chocolate finger. A brandy snap, if you can get a > good enough seal. Hah. The liquorice straws that used to come with sherbert fountains are no longer hollow - you have to dip them. Most unsatisfactory. I'd forgotten about the chocolate finger experiment: they were quite hard work, though, because the liquid comes right through the whole thing rather than up a hole in the middle. You'd need a very powerful suck to use a brandy snap as a tube for imbibing as they have a larger diameter (to accommodate the usual cream) and given their fragility I wonder what effect that would have. We could probably do with another experimental boink. Prof Page has been asserting that his home-made gravadlax (a la Nigella) is better than smoked salmon, a claim which deserves public testing. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >>>No, he just writes cobblers. >>> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >(to accommodate the usual cream) and given their fragility I wonder what >effect that would have. I'm afraid that due to the wheat involved in all three, I cannot assist with the rigorous experimentation required this time. >We could probably do with another experimental boink. Prof Page has been >asserting that his home-made gravadlax (a la Nigella) is better than >smoked salmon, a claim which deserves public testing. However, I could offer myself as a tester here, I'm sure. SignatureLinz Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford My accent may vary Terry <kilowatt@charter.net> had it: > My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a > upper and lower GI. Glycemic Index? Goods Inwards? Government Issue? > He slept until 2PM and did not go to the appointment. He lives with > his parents and uses his mom's car for transportation. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > What is a good word for him being dependant on her? Lazy sod. > What is a good word for the opposite of independent? Dependent. SignatureDavid ===== > Terry <kilowatt@charter.net> had it: > >>My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a >>upper and lower GI. > > Glycemic Index? Goods Inwards? Government Issue? Gastro-intestinal. It's a series of tests of the digestive tract. --Jeff SignatureThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. --Stendhal Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> had it: > > Terry <kilowatt@charter.net> had it: > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Gastro-intestinal. It's a series of tests of the digestive tract. Ah. An adjective without a noun. Like "a physical". SignatureDavid ===== >Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> had it: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Ah. An adjective without a noun. Like "a physical". ..which sounds like the Scottish legal official the Fiscal. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > >Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> had it: > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > ..which sounds like the Scottish legal official the Fiscal. They're so laid-back up there. Procuring is illegal in England and Wales. SignatureMike. > Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> had it: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Ah. An adjective without a noun. Like "a physical". gastro-intestinal (sc. series [sc. of tests]). Indeed, like "a physical (sc. examination)". SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. > Jeffrey Turner <jtur...@localnet.com> had it: > > > Gastro-intestinal. It's a series of tests of the digestive tract. > > Ah. An adjective without a noun. Like "a physical". See also "piano".... Or for that matter "principal" (=BrE "headmaster")....r >> Jeffrey Turner <jtur...@localnet.com> had it: >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > See also "piano".... And "piccolo". Cf. "cello", a diminutive suffix without a stem. SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. >>> Jeffrey Turner <jtur...@localnet.com> had it: >>> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > And "piccolo". And "bass". SignatureEvan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |The great thing about Microsoft 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |dominating the world is that Palo Alto, CA 94304 |there's no shortage of support |opportunities. kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com | Sam Alvis (650)857-7572 http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ >>>> Jeffrey Turner <jtur...@localnet.com> had it: >>>> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > And "bass". And "celesta". SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. >>>>> Jeffrey Turner <jtur...@localnet.com> had it: >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > And "celesta". And "harmonica". SignatureEvan Kirshenbaum +------------------------------------ HP Laboratories |"The Dynamics of Interbeing and 1501 Page Mill Road, 1U, MS 1141 |Monological Imperatives in 'Dick Palo Alto, CA 94304 |and Jane' : A Study in Psychic |Transrelational Modes." kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com | Calvin (650)857-7572 http://www.kirshenbaum.net/ > Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> had it: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Ah. An adjective without a noun. Like "a physical". I'll admit I've usually heard it as a "GI series," but it's understandable in an informal forum standing alone. --Jeff SignatureThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. --Stendhal 'Lazy bum" is redundant. > My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a > upper and lower GI. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > What is a good word for the opposite of independent? 'Dependent'. > My niece's boyfriend does not have a job. He was scheduled to go for a > upper and lower GI. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > What is a good word for the opposite of independent? How 'bout "slugabed"? From *Romeo & Juliet*, I think. W |
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