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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I think ‘abominal’ gets contributions from both ‘abdominal’ and ‘abominable.’ It could pass for a typo except that it’s fairly frequent and turns up in some authoritative looking places:
Abdominal Pain – Gastroenterology – MedHelp
About 10 days ago I started having abominal pain in upper right-quadrant.
www.medhelp.org/posts/Gastroenterology/ … .../234121
abominal pain Symptoms, Treatments and Resources – MedHelp This page is MedHelp’s authoritative resource for abominal pain including symptoms, treatment, causes and diagnoses. MedHelp’s abominal pain page also …
www.medhelp.org/tags/show/82927/abominal-pain
Gastroenterology: Abominal pain, pap smear, white cellspap smear, white cells, hiv test: the best way is to check it out , it can be just an hormonal imbalance, having pain during menses is normal but …
en.allexperts.com/q/Gastroenterology…/Abominal-pain.htm
Thoracoscopic splanchnicectomy for the relief of intractable abominal pain. T TAKAHASHI, A KAKITA, H IZUMIKA, Z IINO, K FURUTA, M YOSHIDA, Y HIKI …
cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2992933
10/10 abominal pain is a clear and obvious sign of a potentially life threatening problem. The standard of care is at the minimum a physical exam.
www.nakedcapitalism.com/.../caps-on-med … wards.html
Abominal Pain Videos – Watch Video about Abominal Pain on Mefeedia Watch abominal pain videos. Find the most recent abominal pain video and clips from thousands of online video sites on Mefeedia.
www.mefeedia.com/tags/abominal_pain
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Here are some other abominal twists inspired by your post, klakritz. Priests can belong to the Dominican Order; an abdominical disorder can bring about a quick and untimely end.
Lives of the Saints, Saint Teresa Margaret Redi:
Born
15 July 1747 at Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy as Anna Maria Redi
Died
7 March 1770 at Florence, Italy of a severe and painful abdominical disorder
(http://saints.sqpn.com/saintt50.htm)
Abdominable pain is the other offspring of the abominable-abdominal pairing.
ObGyn patients forum:
My best friend is 37 and has had intense abdominable pain for the past 3-4 years.
(http://forums.obgyn.net/womens-health/W … /1153.html)
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The slip “abdominal snowman†gets at least a dozen authentic-looking citations (along with a lot of puns). This could of course be a spellchecker typo. Examples:
Shaggy and Scooby get on the wrong plane when en route to meet the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang in Paris and end up lost in the Himalayas while an abdominal snowman is on the loose.
http://www.amazon.com/Chill-Out-Scooby- … CRIF7B69GR
The story of an Abdominal Snowman dates back to 1925. The Yeti was first seen in 1925 by N A Tomaz, a member of the Royal Geographic Society on an expedition in the Himalayas.
http://www.bornrich.org/entry/mysteriou … -for-3500/
For instance there isn’t an abdominal snowman, instead there are seals. And yes you can club a seal in the Japanese game.”
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Contra_III_ … to_the_Wii
I instantly pictured your Mom and I locating the buildings, locating the floor, locating the room, locating the individual who would stamp this document and I felt as out of place as an abdominal snowman tossed into the middle of a gallery of people dancing the waltz.
http://museice.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_archive.html
As a child I loved stories about the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot and the Abominable Snowman, only I thought it was an Abdominal Snowman and wondered how a snowman could ever be, well, ingested
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/sep/1 … t-off-bed/
For decades I’ve wondered just what was so abominable about the Yeti. Turns out the OED actually has an “abominable snowman†article. Here’s the earliest citation:
1921 Times 31 Oct. 10/6 The men were never seen..but footprints were found which were suspected of being those made by these men, who are apparently known to the Tibetans as Meetoh Kangmi, or ‘Abominable Snowmen’, and small colonies of these people are believed to exist on the slopes of Everest, Chumalhari, and Karola.
In the “etymology†section of the article, the editors gloss this first use of the term:
Apparently originally a mistranslation of an alleged Tibetan name for the yeti (reported in the form metoh kangmi with the sense ‘filthy snowman’), made by the journalist Henry Newman who interviewed members of the expedition to Mount Everest led by Sir Charles Howard-Bury in 1921 (compare quot. 1921 at main sense); compare H. Newman’s later explanation:
1937 Times 29 July 15/5 Kangmi means ‘snowmen’ and the word metoh I translated as ‘abominable’...Later, I was told by a Tibetan expert that I had not quite got the force of the word metoh. It did not mean ‘abominable’ quite so much as ‘filthy’ and ‘disgusting’, somebody dressed in rags.
Newman’s metoh probably reflects a compound of Tibetan mi person and dom black bear (pronounced /tom/). kangmi apparently shows a compound of kha, khang snow and mi person, but formed in a way unusual in Tibetan. Compare Tibetan mi rgod hairy mythological monster, robber, yeti, lit. ‘wild person’.]
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