To: nickcarraway
What the heck is “weening”?
Oh, I get it. Author means “weaning”. :-)
7 posted on
10/07/2020 3:10:24 PM PDT by
AFB-XYZ
(Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
To: AFB-XYZ
There’s “overweening.” There’s “underweening.” But there’s no “weening.”
What’s up with that?
22 posted on
10/07/2020 3:34:08 PM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward timef)
To: AFB-XYZ
Could have been weeing....I mean it is a sausage.
To: AFB-XYZ
There are no more editors. And if there are, they’re terrible at their jobs.
To: AFB-XYZ
What the heck is “weening”?Oh, I get it. Author means “weaning”. :-)
ween
(wēn)tr.v. weened,
ween·ing,
weens Archaic To think; suppose.
81 posted on
10/07/2020 6:12:01 PM PDT by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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