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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I heard someone say ‘villigant’ in place of vigilant. Makes sense if you’re looking out for the village.
During a fire safety seminar I was told that I would be ‘engulped in flames’ up to my waist if I didn’t dispose of the chemicals properly.
Should these get to go in the database?
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I do like ‘engulped’ for ‘engulfed’, especially as the latter can mean ‘to be swallowed up’. ‘Engulped’ gets 1,080 googlehits including:
Great waves leaped over them and huge abysses of water engulped them. The utmost power of the Milesians could not bring the ships a hair’s breadth nearer to …
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cwt/cwt10.htm – 12k – Cached
He kept seeing Tsukane being engulped by the Kamehameha wave, he saw Tsukanes arm burst and how he was engulped in the blast. ...
www.narutomania.com/forums/role-playing … 37801.html – 199k – Supplemental Result – Cached
It looks pretty eggcornish to me but as for it going in the database, there’s a pretty hefty waiting list… it seems that at one time entry to the database was not particularly rigorous; now it rarely seems to happen at all, but perhaps that is preferable to devaluing the lot by including the highly dubious?
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