Word: tripes
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...Hefle, v., i, to talk bombastic nonsense, piffle, tripe, etc. The word is used usually in its present participle as: "What are you Heflin' about?" "Stop Heflin' and talk sense...
...this tripe and telephone a date. --Emerson Longfellow Sever...
...departed, she would regurgitate a large fistful and chew it at contented leisure, mixing it with saliva, so that it would slide down, a warm and pleasant blob of food, into her second stomach. This was her reticulum, her honeycomb stomach, which some day will be used for honeycomb tripe. (The rumen constitutes ordinary tripe.) From the reticulum the food would pass through the third (omasum, bullock tripe) and fourth (abomasum, where milk-curdling rennet is manufactured) stomachs, then on into the intestines...
This child who is credited with saying of James Cabell that "Jurgen is his most artistic conception", that "his name is destined to live, to become a classic", this infant who believes American literature a dreary waste and that the "classics" are so much tripe a this pig-tailed mistress of an art most difficult to attain, most demanding, both in skill and experience, justifies the existence of those who, though narrow and crabbed and dogmatic, stick to their guns and send the truths of Aristotelian sanity against the hordes of philanderers in the fields of the liberal arts...
...answers seem to be: "Not much tripe" and "Very well in deed." In chapters on "The Sex Urge," "Frigidity and Incompatibility", and "Matrimony Wreckers'' there is much rehearsal of sex-psychology- prudish parents, prurient children; ignorant girls, boorish men - that will seem, in its sanity, almost old-fashioned to those who are brave enough to buy the book after they learn that the long, frank fourth chapter is on "Homosexuality." There is even the statement: "If man is polygamous, woman is polyandrous," with the usual demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure...