Re: Your Opinion Please: Pretentious Words & Phrases...

Patricia Pasterham wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
Patricia Pasterham wrote:

<ruthless snip, so as to get to the point>:

Last I heard, maggots were
"gentles"; but I think only in an angling context. Have the crawlies
got shortened?

The word is definitely "gent" Use the dictionary, you dill.
Pat
(getting my own back, by being rude.)

No need to be rude -- you are the one in the dark. You might find that there are quite a few contributors here who are not dummies.

From ARTFL Project: Webster Dictionary, 1913

Gen"tle, n.

1. One well born; a gentleman. [Obs.]

Gentles, methinks you frown. Shak.
2. A trained falcon. See Falcon-gentil.

3. (Zoöl.) A dipterous larva used as fish bait.


Also, see http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?gentle
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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