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At 10:26 AM 6/12/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote: >The folks we got Vivi from are looking for a call-name for "Li'l Miss >Yellow." >To match her =cough= vivacious personality, they are looking for a >foreign word meaning "bossy" or "loud mouth" (or a permutation thereby) > >Any suggestions? How about Hawaiian? "Bossy" is Ho'ohaku. (The apostrophe is a glottal stop -- kind of like the "uh" in "uh-oh") (Ho-oh-HAH-koo) I can't find a word for "loudmouth," but "loudspeaker" is Ho'onui leo. (Ho-oh-NOO-ee LAY-oh) Veloci--aloha--raptor --- Rachel's Little NET2FIDO Gate v 0.9.9.8 Alpha* Origin: Rachel's Experimental Echo Gate (1:135/907.17) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 135/907 123/500 106/2000 633/267 |
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