Thanks, Robin, Doug, Andrew. I did intend something like gobsmacked but
wanted stonkered to convey surprised and suddenly arrestedby. Not so much
tired as unmanned, almost attacked. Stonkered and unknowing how to proceed.
Big ask for one word I know.
Bill
On Thu, 4 May 2017 at 1:09 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
> >>>
> >>
>
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