Word: eggsit
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...lexicon of permissible slang Mrs. Post, who was once heard to describe a table layout as "lousy," adds such expressions as "O.K.." "swell," "divine," "and how!" "so what?" "you betcha." But she never hears "colyum," "ottawobile," "eggsit," "tomayto," "cult-your" (which she pronounces "cultcha")* in good society. Her pet hate: pretentious circumlocutions such as "permit me to assist you" instead of "let me help...
Coming up to her unawares he said, "You are laying yourself out! Permit me to say that you are eggsaggerating," which so frightened the Innocent Fowl that she made an immediate eggsit from her nest. He made an eggsamination and discovered that the Hen fruit contained therein, though eggsternally beautiful, had no Pith. The yolk laid on the shoulders of the Editor of that daily Egg (0) was too heavy to be borne...
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