Word: forsooth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declares his belief that you resemble a dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...
...York City's blizzard of '47 (TIME, Jan. 5) was largely a memory by last week; but a lot of loaded snowballs were still being thrown-mostly at the weatherman. The New York Times sternly demanded to know what had happened to forecasts lately ("occasional snow," forsooth, on the day of the 25.8-incher). And what, asked the Times, was being done about...
...unkindest smirk of all lit up the Montreal Herald: "We are presently beaver-busy with uplift and the dusting off of our own morals. Sights high, eyes on the target, we are out to blast the canard that Montreal was ever a sinful city. . . . 'Toronto the Good' forsooth. Move over, chum...
finesse ? 2nd T.R.: Forsooth and I shall send this...
Zounds! As even the most erudite of Harvard professors forsooth must discover betimes, this fair young university finally shows signs which portend of pigskin prowess...