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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I saw this beaut on r/boneappletea. A junk start would be needed to reanimate that piece of junk you call a car. Or maybe it’s just a crappy way to start anything.
If you need a tow, a junk start, flat tire change or even a unlock! Give me a call
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dear KAKA,
thanks you for gave a junk start for the charmis cold engine…
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all the way with OX ……LET GO SEN JOE ……. I WANT YOU TO JUNK START DE THING …!!!!!!!!
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I am personally asking God – 40 000 fasts : 1-40 days – 40 000 hours of prayers – 400 sums
To bring God down so that we have the momentum to fill the earth.
To junk start us
Praise the Lord!
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See also the simbling junk drive << jump drive
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David Bird wrote:
...To junk start us…
Fasting crusade
Must be a reference to the traditional junk food binge with which they ring in the fasting crusade. And by “ring in”, I mean onion rings.
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An eggcorn, a very palpable eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Not everyone carries jump-leads and a far more common sight is two or three folk pushing a car with a flat battery. When some reasonable momentum is reached the driver, who has the clutch pressed down and is in second gear, suddenly releases said clutch and with a jerk the engine fires and the car tootles off, driver waving mad thanks.
(We speak here only of cars with manual drive.)
The only hope would be 6 burly blokes to push it from rest whilst in 3rd/4th gear to jerk start it?
... his stranded lorry and instead got back into the cab, intending to jerkstart the engine of his tractor unit and thereby to drag the trailer clear.
Push start. If the battery isn’t completely dead or flat and has some life in it then simply jerk-start it by engaging a gear and getting a …
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Currious, just experianced the joy of a dead Jeep battery. I fought charging it for 2-3 days and finally chump started it.
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Only a chump would need a boost instead of just turning the key. Uniquorn, unfortunately. I think Peter’s ‘jerk start’ got me looking for this.
Last edited by David Bird (2022-04-07 10:03:19)
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Uniquorn, unfortunately.
I’m tempted to adopt it. In the context, though, maybe the chumpiness was in fighting the charging? (The same thing as fighting the charges, right?)
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“The battry wouldn’t bat, so I chust chump-started it.”
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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