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#1 2013-06-08 17:03:58

burred
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From: Montreal
Registered: 2008-03-17
Posts: 1112

"Enhammered" for enamoured/enamored

To be enhammered with something is to be seriously inebriated by it, or maybe concussed and seeing stars and cherubs.

The mayor and local business leaders were not so enhammered of this. They declared that this general strike was bulshivism
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Some times you get so enhammered with a player you only look at the facts/stats YOU want to see.
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It was Debbie Ramsey, with whom Cliff was so enhammered with,
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She saw the other twin and blushed wildly not hapy that he’d seen her that close to Kaoru when she was in completely and utterly enhammered with him
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Years ago, M&S was like a second home to me lol but Im not that enhammered about it as much now
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Some people seem to think that being enamored is not too different from being baked, fired up, all shiny, deeply enamelled.

Most American companies are so enamelled by their success in the home country that
http://www.medianama.com/2009/10/223-fa … -in-india/

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#2 2013-06-10 12:22:06

kem
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 2872

Re: "Enhammered" for enamoured/enamored

Good one. Beadwof strikes again.

Perhaps the difference between Greek polytheism and Nordic polytheism is the difference between this eggcorn and its acorn —between Amour of the Gods and Hammer of the Gods.


Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.

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