grr_plus1 ([info]grr_plus1) wrote,
@ 2006-07-09 20:06:00
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Chorbly poll
How's about starting with a low tech poll?

What would you think the meaning is for the word "Chorbly"?

Wikipedia & Websters have no entry for it, and google has only 5 divergent hits. If chorbly really does mean something to you, please respond with your definition - & perhaps where you got it from. If chorbly is nonsense to you, feel free to invent. ;)

p.s. Stay clear of preemptive chorbly definition taint. If possible, post your reply before reading the others.


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[info]ruthling
2006-07-10 12:35 am UTC (link)
oooh, one and a half days on, and already a comment-hog :)

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[info]ams16
2006-07-10 12:53 am UTC (link)
It doesn't mean anything to me, but if I heard it, I'd think it meant something that made me chuckle, while also sort of subtle.

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[info]donnad
2006-07-10 01:19 am UTC (link)
I think I may have the advantage here knowing you guys and reading [info]ruthling's LJ, but when I hear the word chorbly, I think of the birdsong I hear every morning, sort of a warbly kind of bird call.

By the way, Hi and welcome to the collective...

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[info]dougmander
2006-07-10 01:24 am UTC (link)
Well, a chorble sounds like a cross between a chortle and a warble, so chorbly would be a related adverb -- "The bird sang chorbly in the treetop".

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[info]fairdice
2006-07-10 01:27 am UTC (link)
chorbly adv In the manner of, or reminiscent of, chorbling.

There, wasn't that helpful?

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[info]grr_plus1
2006-07-10 02:08 am UTC (link)
Yes, "chorbly" is the adverb/adjective form of "chorble". How very chorblicious of you.;)

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[info]logisticslad
2006-07-10 03:01 am UTC (link)
It describes the sound that silly bird I lived with made every now and then... or possibly the sounds that its owners made in response to it :-)

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[info]nonethewiser
2006-07-10 11:32 am UTC (link)
Given Ruth's talk about the birds, I must assume it means a satisfied and content birdie babbling away to himself....

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[info]alikander
2006-07-11 12:15 am UTC (link)
I think it's a remote village in East Anglia, the kind with horrid murders which must be investigated by Lord Peter Wimsey.

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[info]grr_plus1
2006-07-11 02:14 am UTC (link)
Darn. You guys have too much inside information on Chorbly. Apparently Ruthling has been posting comments about her forthcoming historical treatise "Chorbly Now & Then".

It is indeed a small town (actually in Wales) renowned for the grisly murders committed by a man dressed up as a parakeet. The town name came to be associated with the chittering/whistling noises the man made as he stalked his victims (every one of them retired cakesniffers from the South Chorbly Sweets factory) as they went about their post-prandial perambulations. Although the likely perpetrator was captured and hanged, after flaunting full parakeet regalia at the local bird fancier's ball, rumors abound that this was the wrong man and that the real murderer still chorbles through the moors on misty, new-moon nights.

Of course Americans, unaware of this unspeakable horror known so well by the residents of Chorbly, Wales, only latched onto the "bird" and "noise" aspects of the word. Hence, to chorble, here, means to warble and chatter like a parakeet. Ironically part of the darker aspects of the word have unintentionally carried over "across the pond", since anyone who knows parakeets well can tell you that they chorble loudest just before they sink their beaks into your fingers.

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