pooster
To toil in mud or filth; to splash among water.
- Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911
- Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911
posted by the scribbler | 9:04 PM
Obsolete Word of the Day
If you share my enthusiasm for interesting words and phrases, give this blog a try! It's just for grins and giggles.
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PRIMARY SOURCES: More Weird and Wonderful Words, Erin McKean, 2003; Forgotten English 2006 desktop calendar, Jeffrey Kacirk; Common Phrases, J. Mordock & Myron Korach, 2001; The Dictionary of Cliches, James Rogers, 1985; The American Heritage Dictionary
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