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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Nov 23 10:16:10 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:15:56 -0600
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 23, 2011
>
> Klingon word: bol
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: drool
As used in canon:
bolpu'
He/she has drooled. KGT
KGT 147: In its nonslang sense, {bol} does not take an object: {bolpu'} ("He/she has drooled").
HQ 12.4:8: "If {tlhepQe'} "saliva" is produced, one is said to {tIl} "salivate". If the {tlhepQe'} involuntarily escapes one's lips and dribbles down one's chin, one is said to {bol} "drool"/
More related verbs:
{tlhIS} spit out; {tuy'} spit
Also note the slang word {bolwI'} "traitor":
KGT 147: This word actually means "drooler" - that is, "one who drools". The nonslang word meaning traitor is {maghwI'} (literally, "one who betrays"). Probably because of the parallel formation of {bolwI'} and {maghwI'} (that is, verb plus {-wI'}), the verb {bol} ("drool") is sometimes used to mean "betray", as if it were equivalent to {magh}. In this usage, {bol}, like {magh}, may take an object; that is, the sentence may indicate who is betrayed: {mumaghpu'} ("He/she has betrayed me") or {mubolpu'} ("He/she has betrayed me"; literally, "He/she has drooled me"). In its nonslang sense, bol does not take an object: bolpu' ("He/she has drooled").
PUN:
During the US Civil War, southerners working for the Union against the Confederacy were called "boll weevils" - an insect which destroys cotton crops by burrowing into the cotton bloom (known as a "boll"), ruining the plant from the inside.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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