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robpreuss's avatar

Fantastic words, and as soon as i saw the first one, 'Tatterdemalion'

i was happy that i've known this since i was 10 years old,

as Freddie Mercury used it in a lyric on the 2nd Queen album-

this song- 'The Fairyfellers Master-Stroke'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orTosjJUQ3k

Ploughman, "waggoner will" and types

Politician with senatorial pipe, he's a dilly-dally-o

Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown

And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow

What a dirty laddio

Tatterdemalion and the junketer

There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter, he's my hero

Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend

The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke)

What a quaere fellow

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Martin Hughes's avatar

Why use a short word when a sesquipedalian one will do?

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