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Subject: [OLDWORDS] Re: OLD-WORDS-D Digest V00 #119
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 08:28:20 EDT
Mossy horn brings to mind the terms "greenhorn" and "not dry behind the
ears." In the kindest sense meaning naive, I suppose. My grandmother
used to say (when something wasn't done right in the first place), "you
have to lick your calf over." The not-dry-behind ears--I've been
told--refers
to the last place a cow licks her calf dry after its birth, hence
someone very
young, or unsophisticated. ~~Dixie in Indiana
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