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Subject: Literary expressions
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature
Asked by: ahealthysmiler-ga
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Posted: 05 Jul 2003 10:31 PDT
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Question ID: 225382
What is a pimplesnerd? sp?
Pimplesnerd is an expression used by my Dad.  Most of his expressions
came from literature he read in school.
It was used to to describe a person whose action had undesirable results.
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Subject: Re: Literary expressions
From: tutuzdad-ga on 05 Jul 2003 11:13 PDT
 
I found nothing related to anything even remotely similar to this
word. I suspect this is a phrase your father coined.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga
Subject: Re: Literary expressions
From: hummer-ga on 05 Jul 2003 11:38 PDT
 
Hi healthysmiler,

Sounds like it may be a young lad's play on the word "pimpernel", as
in "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy. You'll find an etext
version of it here:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/scarp-table.html

Just a thought,
hummer
Subject: Re: Literary expressions
From: pinkfreud-ga on 05 Jul 2003 17:02 PDT
 
My late father-in-law sometimes referred to people who annoyed him as
"pimplesnivelers." I wonder if "pimplesnerd" might be a variant of
this.

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