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"A kaber is nothing to scoff at!"

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On Tue, 4/18/17, Rob Davenport <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] "He's my Caber" sounds cool & exotic...
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 12:54 PM

 I like the
 term Caber - just the word sounds good ( 'cabar' or
 'kaber' from its Gaidhlig roots). And I could see it
 mutating over the centuries to mean what Jeff is looking
 for.    Even "caber toss" might mean something
 different. :)
 On Tue,
 Apr 18, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 Oh!

 Picturing "I'm your Caber" got me thinking.

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 http://home.earthlink.net/~
 knuthco1/Itemsofinterest1/ huckleberrysource.htm

 "Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented
 Edition" (Crowell, 1975):

 "A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a
 particular

 purpose. 1936: "Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr.
 Haney." Tully,

 "Bruiser," 37. Since 1880, archaic.

 The "Historical Dictionary of American Slang"
 which is a multivolume

 work, has about a third of a column of citations documenting
 this

 meaning all through the latter 19th century.

 So "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm
 just the man you're looking for!"

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 On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml
 list)

 <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 wrote:

 >

 > You know I like the idea of this character so much
 I'm going to use'm as an NPC.

 >

 > "Who's that?"

 >

 > "That's the/my/his Caber!"

 >

 > "What?"

 >

 > thanks,

 >

 >

 >

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