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Please help me understand.
From Mark Twain’s wonderful story “At the appetite cure”:
I glanced at the list [menu] and shuddered. Of all the barbarous dishes that were ever mentioned in the menu these were the worst: […..] half way down the bill stood “young cat; old cat; SCRAMBLED CAT”…
What would it be like?
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Hmmm...
I think Twain modeled that name after "scrambled eggs".
I wouldn't paint a very pretty picture to describe it...eww.
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Tnx, Presley, for a new word- I guess, EWW means disgust. Is it common enough to be entered in my vocabulary? How does it sound?
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Oh, sorry.
That's not really an actual word, but yes, you are correct, it expresses disgust.
I don't know about other English-speaking places (I live in California), but I say and hear it very often.
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