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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghegh (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghegh (verb)
• Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:49:41 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, January 27, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   ghegh
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be rough

Used in canon:

   tlhIngan yoH ghegh verengan yoH Hab
   tlhIngan yoH Hab verengan yoH ghegh
   The Klingon is braver than the Ferengi (slang) KGT

Used elsewhere:

   naDev qonwI' qab'e' Dalegh:
   SeQpIr qab 'IHmoH QuchDaj ghegh
   This figure, that thou seest here put,
   It was for gentle Shakespeare cut.
   (lit. "Shakespeare's rough forehead beautifies his face."
   [Seqram's couplet accompanying the Klingon frontispiece
    portrait of Shakespeare in the KLI's "The Klingon Hamlet"]

Subsequently we learned that the usual term referring to Klingon foreheads 
is {vIl} "be ridgy" (cf. HQ 13.1).  It's (insulting) antonym is {Hab} "smooth".

See also {tlher} "be lumpy" (used WRT food in KGT 84f).




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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