Yes, & so is it quite what you meant, Bill, to suggest? Interesting, as I’m thinking a snap along similar lines, sort of.
Leave ti to Robin to know (&/or find) the right dictionary online to tell us all.
But let’s keep paying attention to beauty so long as we can…
Doug
> On May 3, 2017, at 6:54 AM, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Definitely originally Australian. Seems to originate in Australian WW1 army
> slang, with original meaning of dead (or blown up by shells?), then in general
> Aussie colloquial English shifts to (dead) drunk. In UK usage (yes, pace
> Patrick, it's reached here) I'd guess it has more of the connotations of simply
> tired. At least that's how it runs in my idiolect.
>
> (The above courtesy of the online Green's Dictionary of Slang --
> https://greensdictofslang.com -- with a few added inferences for which JG
> shouldn't be held responsible.)
>
> As for Bill's "Still stonkered by beauty," in UK terms, with the sense he
> intends, this would translate as, "Still gobsmacked by beauty."
>
> Robin
>
>>
>> On 03 May 2017 at 10:03 Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Yes, must be Aus coinage, Patrick I suppose.
>>
>> Definition Of:
>> Stonkered
>> [image: Australian Slang/It] Australian Slang
>> <http://slang-dictionary.slang-dictionary.org/Australian-Slang/>
>> 1. defeated; destroyed; overthrown; 2. exhausted; 3. drunk; 4. extremely
>> lethargic or incapacitated, as after a large meal
>>
>> Hadn't thought. Just presumed it was general. Not really liking the
>> definitions above, more 'thrown by' I was looking for.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 3 May 2017 at 6:20 PM, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Bill another smile to my face interesting subject close to home
>>> 'stonkered' (spell check is upset wants stoppered!!)is that a word of
>>> your own or Oz?
>>>
>>> cheers P
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/05/2017 00:03, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>> I was me
>>>> Now I'm me plus sixty
>>>>
>>>> Aging's not what you think it will be
>>>> not from the inside anyway
>>>>
>>>> Sure you slow down
>>>> seize up
>>>>
>>>> But the bouncing inner voice
>>>> rattles along much as it ever did
>>>>
>>>> Maybe you're not as deft,
>>>> as willing.
>>>>
>>>> But just as naive,
>>>> as tripping,
>>>>
>>>> as you were at ten;
>>>> Still stonkered by beauty
>>>>
>>>> like your tousle-haired
>>>> teen self.
>>>>
>>>> bw
>>>
>>
Douglas Barbour
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