tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 01 07:33:39 2015
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: veQ
> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, May 01, 2015
>
> Klingon word: veQ
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: garbage
<yajchu'. ghargh... veQ> (??)
[Understood clearly. Worms... garbage!] ST3 (untranslated)
logh veQDaq bachchugh, yoH 'e' toblaHbe' SuvwI'
Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's mettle. (ST5 notes)
jogh veQ lungIv
They patrol the quadrant garbage. KGT
Used as an epithet in the KCD novelization ("Star Trek: Klingon" [STK]):
Then speaking to Pok, but looking directly into Vok's face,
[K'Tar] said, "Throw this {veQ} out." (STK 23f)
"Get this {veQ} off my bridge." (STK 106)
"When we catch this {veQ} of a bartender," I said to Pok, "I will let
you have the honor of killing him." (STK 107)
Qua'lon jumped to his feet, clearly outraged. "The wife of the {veQ}
who killed my brother may not enter the House of SepIch." (STK 166)
veQDuj garbage scow (n)
veQDuj 'oH DujlIj'e'
Your ship is a garbage scow! TKD
Compare {veQ} with {DI} "litter, rubble, debris" (n):
qatlh Dat DI tu'lu' tlhIngan
Why is there rubble everywhere, Klingon? CK
vaj toDuj Daj ngeHbej DI vI'
Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's mettle.
["Sharpshooting of the cosmos' litter inconclusively
tests a warrior's courage."] ST5/TKW
TREK TRIVIA:
"We can wallow like a garbage scow..." (TOS "Elaan of Troyius")
In 2367 a 300-year old unmanned waste vessel leaking radioactive waste assumed orbit around Gamelan V. (TNG "Final Mission")
SEE ALSO:
pIgh ruins (n)
pugh dregs (n)
chuvmey leftovers (n)
tlhuch exhaust [i.e. waste products]) (v)
woD throw away, throw (out) (v)
polHa' discard (v)
He'So' stink (v)
ngIm be putrid (v)
non be rotten (v)
tlhorgh be pungent (food) (v)
ragh decay (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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