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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Watching ‘I, Robot’ tonight my ear was stirred from its complacency by the word ‘recluse’ having the stress on the first syllable. It sounded like ‘wreck-loose’ and it took me a few moments to work out what was meant ; I obviously am used to hearing the stress on the second syllable. I thought it possible that some folk might imagine a recluse as a loose wreck of a character, and it seems some do…
SHE HAS NO REGARD FOR HER CHILDRENS SAFETY OR HER OWN I AM PRAYING THAT SHE LOSES HER CHILDREN SHE IS NOT A MOTHER AT ALL SHE IS A WRECKLOOSE AND A …
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Truthful Fallacy:if i could i would be an unemployed wreckloose. did your parents lock you in the basement for the first 5 years of your life? ...
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About Clinton’s recent trip to China bringing an entourage of lakkies, groupies and losers that would make Frank Sinatra look like a wreckloose. (sic. ...
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I like the way the transformed word “wreckloose” contains two imagery elements: “wreck” and “loose”. As much as this could be eye dialect, I’d sooner classify it as an eggcorn because of the way the elements combine so nicely. But I guess it all comes down to context.
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did you all notice those “lakkies”?
On “wreckloose,” I vote eggcorn.
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I thought I had a live one. In these hits, and in others on the web, a wreck loose can be a recluse, or reckless, or … a wreck that is loose.
“Leigh was trouble, a damn good fighter, amazing in tactics, but he didn’t like to listen. He was a wreck-loose, a flaw that would undue him and possibly those under his command. One day his luck would run out, and then the shit would hit the fan,” thought Jack.
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He had two other sons, one a wreck-loose that never came around and another who had moved to Pennsylvania
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“Yes, sir! Ahead, full speed!” the burly helmsman replied.
The ship roared to life as her main engines fired up.
“Sam, isn’t this kind of a wreck loose strategy? We’re rushing head on into the lion’s mouth!” Jack protested.
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There is a game during Field Day designed to help an island inhabited by a wreck loose American actor, Marlon Brando, fit through a doorway.
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And it’s not because you’re being a bit of a wreck loose, because, I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel so much as though it is wrecking me.
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Edit: Oh yes, being wreck-loose will undue one.
Last edited by David Bird (2015-12-22 19:00:32)
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I want somebody who’s not scuttling about in his dilapidated shanty.
I want someone whose not so intense and not sooo highly emotional and a wreck louse.
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A precious Christmas nonce. Here’s another singleton, this time for a devil-may-care partyer.
I enjoy being spontaneous and sometimes wrecklouse. I do enjoy outdoor activities as long as it has nothing to do with bugs
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