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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:07:36 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>,
        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>,
        Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: ATTENTION ports maintainers !
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On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:18:42AM -0700, Donald Burr wrote:
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> My secret spy satellite informs me that on 02-Jun-98, Poul-Henning Kamp
> wrote:
> 
> > What the heck is "sweetmeats" ?
> 
> Trust me.  You don't want to know.
> 
> Hint: (at least in the Old English usage) it meant basically "parts of
> animals that one would normally not consider eating"...

BZZT!  Thanks for playing, but you loose.  ;-)

>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Sweetmeat \Sweet"meat`\, n.
     1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons,
        nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a
        confect; a confection.
  
     2. The paint used in making patent leather.
  
     3. (Zo["o]l.) A boat shell ({Crepidula fornicata}) of the
        American coast. [Local, U.S.]

>From WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]:

  sweetmeat
       n : a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry)


Eivind.

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