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WCDT: 2505-2509 (August 5-9, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
The OED agrees with Akima about spelling, with the primary entry being "moxie" and others listed as variants.
I will assume that reproducing the entry for one word, for educational purposes, is fair use:
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Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈmɒksi/ , U.S. /ˈmɑksi/
Forms: 19– moxey, 19– moxie, 19– moxy.
Etymology: < Moxie, the proprietary name of an American soft drink (first manufactured in 1884 or 1885, and originally sold as a patent medicine; further etymology uncertain: for a suggestion see Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. s.v.).(Show Less)
slang (chiefly N. Amer.).
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Courage, audacity, spirit; energy, vigour; enterprise; skill, shrewdness.
[1890 H. C. De Mille Men & Women in America's Lost Plays (1941) XVII. 290 Young man, you've got nerve enough to start a Moxie factory.]
1930 D. Runyon in Collier's 20 Dec. 32/3 Personally, I always figure Louie a petty-larceny kind of guy, with no more moxie than a canary bird.
1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang 215 Moxie, ability and skill as a baseball player.
1943 M. Shulman Barefoot Boy xv. 158 We knew you had the old moxie, the old get out and get.
1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 94 If he admits his own limitations, he loses his nerve (blows his moxie).
1970 New Yorker 29 Aug. 19/1 It takes moxie, skill, and self-reliance.
1987 Golf Monthly July 19/1 So watch him; follow him. Those with the moxy may even wager on him.
1994 Denver Post 30 Jan. a10/1 Rifkin acquired a toupee, flashy clothes, and enough business moxie to corner the market on Denver nightlife.
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Mad Cat:
QC characters with glasses:
Square frames:
Faye
Dale
Marigold
Non-square frames:
Tai
I think I've noticed a certain type of bias in the QC-verse.
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 09 Aug 2013, 03:48 ---QC characters with glasses:
Square frames:
Faye
Dale
Marigold
Non-square frames:
Tai
I think I've noticed a certain type of bias in the QC-verse.
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I think its more of a fashion than a bias.
DSL:
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--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 09 Aug 2013, 00:26 ---Kobolds are reptilian and do not have dicks.
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Reptiles are not without penises. Male turtles and crocodiles have fairly conventional single centrally mounted dicks. Snakes and lizards have two hemipenises, either of which might be termed a dick. I know nothing of the evolutionary history of kobolds, so I cannot say which is more likely in them, and I am not inclined to investigate.
--- Quote from: Westrim on 08 Aug 2013, 14:33 ---The originator of the term may have been spelled Moxie, but everything since then that used it as a name has spelled it Moxy.
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Not so. A moment's googling reveals: Phil Weld's OSTAR-winning trimaran yacht Moxie., Moxie Girlz dolls, Moxie feminine hygiene products, and the Moxie photo-filter sharing network. Google gives 9,150,000 hits for "moxie" and 4,570,000 for "moxy". Clearly there are alternative spellings, but "moxie" seems to be preferred. Most image hits for "moxy" are Norwegian dump-trucks.
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This ... this is a person who understands humor.
Rghfrgl:
--- Quote ---Kobolds are reptilian and do not have dicks.
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In modern fantasy they've been dog people until dnd decided 'we need more lizardpeople!' for no real good reason.
May is clearly a grognard.
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