logo       

Re: Numpties and bennies: msg#00025

science.linguistics.corpora

Subject: Re: Numpties and bennies

Diana Maynard wrote:

Incidentally, there's no wikipedia entry for "numpty".

Nor should there be, arguably - Wikipedia is not a dictionary. There is an entry in Wiktionary, though:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/numpty

By the way, I have heard "bennies" used as slang for "benefits", especially in the phrase "friends with bennies", meaning casual sex partners. The folks who named this credit card are apparently unfamiliar with that usage:

https://www.mybenny.com/BennyCard/FAQ.htm

Or I could be misunderstanding what one can purchase with the card ...

- John D. Burger
MITRE




<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Google Custom Search

News | FAQ | advertise