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KatyBr
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dundrearies

Postby KatyBr » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:58 am

Just guessing, but I'll bet this one hasn't been a WOTD yet
. long sideburns worn with a clean-shaven chin - DUNDREARIES (This fashion disaster was named after Lord Dundreary, a character in the 1858 play, Our American Cousin by English dramatist, Tom Taylor
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nope ya got yer dongle, doozy, dreidel, ductile, but no dundrearies, heh heh heh.
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Postby Slava » Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:20 pm

According to that source of perfect knowledge called Wikipedia, dundrearyisms were long malapropisms, too. The picture shows just how wacky these sideburns were.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundrearies
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Postby LukeJavan8 » Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:13 pm

The height of fashion too, one presumes. How would
one keep from staring???
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