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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qay' (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Qay' (verb)
• Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:10:46 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, March 19, 2007.
>
>Klingon word:   Qay'
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     blow one's top

Related verbs:

{QeH} be angry/mad

>Homonyms:
>     Qay' (verb) - use the little toe

"the phonetic identity of {Qay'} 'use the little toe' and {Qay'} 'blow 
one's top, lose one's temper' is probably not accidental, as evidenced by 
the idiomatic expression {'oy'qu' Qay'wI'wIj}, literally 'my little toe 
aches a lot', which means 'I'm extremely angry')."  [HQ 10.2:11]




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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