Chas, in UK English it also means a tiring or unwelcome task or a junior pupil at a public [fee paying) school who does minor chores for a senior pupil
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Re: Steppenwolf
Croan wrote:One thing about the Yanks - they never seriously piddled about in
anything as preposterously pointless as prog.
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Croan wrote:One thing about the Yanks - they never seriously piddled about in
anything as preposterously pointless as prog.
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Re: Steppenwolf
Carlsson wrote:Chas, in UK English it also means a tiring or unwelcome task or a junior pupil at a public [fee paying) school who does minor chores for a senior pupil.
Thanks, I never knew that!
The members of Steppenwolf might have known all these alternate meanings... but they unquestionably knew the sole American English meaning.