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The Random Text Says: "" Spavined? Um, What? March 16th, 2002 - 8:57 p.m. I'm Currently Avoiding:So I didn't write a diary entry yesterday. That's okay, because practically no one else wrote one either. Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! I just saw a commercial for a singing Barney stuffed toy. They need to keep that stuff far, FAR away from me. It took me something like an hour and fifteen minutes before I wrote anything in here other than what I copy and paste. Of course, I was sort of cooking for part of this time, so it's all good. I haven't done much of anything lately, so why do I bother even updating? I don't know, so I'm going to go away now. spavined (adj. SPAV-und) 1 : affected with spavin 2 : old and decrepit : over-the-hill "His horse [is] . . . troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of windgalls, sped with spavins. . . ." Petruchio's poor, decrepit horse in Shakespeare's _Taming of the Shrew_ is beset by just about every equine malady known, including a swollen mouth (lampas), skin lesions (fashions), tumors on his fetlocks (windgalls), and swellings on his hocks (spavins). The spavins alone are enough to render a horse lame and useless. In the 17th century, spavined horses brought to mind other things that are obsolete, out-of-date, or long past their prime, and we began using the adjective figuratively. Spavined still serves a purpose, despite its age. It originated in Middle English as spaveyned and can be traced to the Middle French word for spavin, which was espavain. Strange word. Feeling lucky? Choose an Entry At RANDOM! Yes. Random. Randomosity is cool...come on, you know you want to... Well, if you don't subscribe to peer pressure, then just go Back or Forward with the Dragons below:
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