Curmudgeon on Nostr: TIL that the word frood used by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...
TIL that the word frood used by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to mean "really amazingly together guy" is an actual dialect adjective dating from Old English. Beowulf to be exact.
Published at
2024-05-25 23:12:43Event JSON
{
"id": "81a64a1656a68b8255c54a9d3721b215cdd9e2364ad32aef82b1d26dace038a6",
"pubkey": "80704c99e3dc113b4544693012ff8999925b4c82387e4bc49cf95145fdd54365",
"created_at": 1716678763,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.online/users/jetton/statuses/112504259420367482",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "TIL that the word frood used by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to mean \"really amazingly together guy\" is an actual dialect adjective dating from Old English. Beowulf to be exact.\n\nhttps://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/112/504/238/213/647/376/original/5b8f16fb69d8b8ea.jpg",
"sig": "9b32c499e82ff8f118928b570ce08e70a55b27a43dae52099d942b0f5a5a51c80bcd5f39a112c5d1e8251d6caa9596fce78e53dbdda6d03a3b4b6d3cbe978b34"
}
