Friday, June 22, 2007

word-hoard
duffifie: "to lay a bottle on its side for some time, after its contents have been poured out, that it may be completely drained of the few drops remaining. Elsewhere, one is said to 'make the bottle confess.' Aberdeen. (~John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808)"

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