Etymological trivia
- Thread starter Jim
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Wolf04
New Member
- Location
- Wallsend on Tyne
Col will be along shortly to correct you!
Kirstie
Über Member
Really? I'd always assumed it was a shortened version of 'coline', which is French for 'hill'.
Well there you go....
Well there you go....
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
rich p said:I made a mounting pass at a girl but she turned me down
It wasn't a col girl then...
Mr Phoebus
New Member
Colnago: Constant moaning about a mountain pass.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
a hilly testicle?rich p said:No, she was in a dead end job. A col de sac, you might say
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
rich p said:I made a mounting pass at a girl but she turned me down
Moses went to Mount Olive, but Popeye hit him!
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Fnaar said:
Does that hill have a stiff incline?
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Speicher said:
No but it's got a lot of hairy bends...or is it bendy hairs?
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Aperitif said:No but it's got a lot of hairy bends...or is it bendy hairs?
And quite a lot of arterial roads.
