Wordie: Tragus: Comments

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:11:30 +0000

I think you may be right. :-)

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:52:39 +0000

Safe unless I get a hankering for cod wrap and stop by Silly's at the same time you do! Look for the woman staring surreptitiously at ears.

Come to think of it, staring surreptitiously is probably akin to jumbo shrimp.

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:27:00 +0000

Yea, you should be safe. ;-)

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:22:02 +0000

*glad slumry won't be checking out my ears any time soon, since we live on opposite sides of the country* ;-)

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:12:18 +0000

Oh dear, now I will be compelled to go about observing tragi to see if they are hairy. A little scientific survey. ;-)

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:22:56 +0000

Odd, sionnach, that it derives from the same root as tragic. Makes a Wordie wonder.... ;-)

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:48:54 +0000

But this doesn't mean "hairy ear," and it doesn't refer only to people with hairy ears. Whether people with hairy ears look like goats or not is irrelevant. The word refers to a part outside your ear that everyone has, even people without hairy traguses (tragi?). Why that has anything to do with goats is beyond me. But very interesting, so thanks for posting the etymology. I say again... ?!?!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:43:18 +0000

Joke, seanahan. Joke. :-)

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:25:28 +0000

Um, goats have very hairy ears. People with hairy ears look like goats. Seems like a pretty straight forward explanation.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:17:28 +0000

this word is tragic

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:56:25 +0000

?!?! too! How they got from goat to hairy part of the ear, I don't want to know.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:23:34 +0000

?!?!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:06:54 +0000

The etymology is even more bizarre:

New Latin, from Greek tragos, goat, hairy part of the ear.

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:04:52 +0000

Wow. This is a weird word that doesn't sound at all like its meaning. Meatus is even weirder and sounds even less like its meaning!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:04:14 +0000

Ditto, trivet.

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:50:19 +0000

Gross, y'all!

Meatus just made the hate list.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:37:50 +0000

Blecch! An even more ghastly image!

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:36:46 +0000

sounds like a meat foetus.

If God didn't want us to eat fetuses, why are they made out of meat?

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:33:25 +0000

Eeew. Meatus. Doesn't it sound like it's supposed to be a big hunk of steak?

Comment by AbraxasZugzwang, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:31:09 +0000

cool. and cause of this word, I found meatus!

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:26:02 +0000

that little flap of cartilage at the front of the opening of your ear