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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bochmoHwI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Oct 26 10:14:27 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:14:10 -0500
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, October 26, 2011
>
> Klingon word: bochmoHwI'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: sycophant, flatterer (slang)
KGT 146-47: Literally "shiner, one who shines (something)", this word is all that remains of an earlier expression, {'etlh bochmoHwI'} ("blade shiner"). It was originally used to refer to someone who shined somebody else's blade, as opposed to one's own, suggesting the idea of flattering a superior rather than simply doing one's own work. A nonslang equivalent might be {naDwI'} ("one who praises"), though this lacks the overtones of "self-serving".
KGT 146 (ill.): Garak... a Cardassian operative in the mirror universe who is a {bochmoHwI'}.
The following proverb may be relevant:
ghIchwIj DabochmoHchugh ghIchlIj qanob
If you shine my nose, I will give you your nose. PK
"Power Klingon" says that this is "a common idiom meaning: Don't try to fool me. Do not try to mislead me if you value your life."
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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