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 ! Message-ID: <19980603140736.60305@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980603031842.dburr@POBoxes.com>; from Donald Burr on Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 03:18:42AM -0700 References: <9336.896814615@critter.freebsd.dk> <XFMail.980603031842.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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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
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> > What the heck is "sweetmeats" ?
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> Trust me. You don't want to know.
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> 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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