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msc (224 words)
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msc's Words, by msc
savory words, by marco_nj
jough's Words, by jough
TWTWB Sec 3, by axyjo
just because, by tendrel
lo5an's Words, by lo5an
nfrank's Words, by nfrank
lulu's Words, by lulu
wit's Words, by wit
Kalli's Words, by Kalli
Noah's Park, by whichbe
jong's list, by jong
Words to Use, by tonya
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Film critic Paul Arendt described Kill Bill Vol. 1 as "a barely watchable mess, a tangled montage of fashion gloss streaked in gore, a cocktail party in an abattoir."
What an image.
We REALLY need some Nick Cave lists. I nominate Kalli.
"I've got the abattoir blues." - Nick Cave
Perhaps because it contains the shriek of "schrei".
Good point. I don't think German fleischerei (butcher) hides anything, you can just about hear flesh being ripped apart.
The French word hides the grisliness of the slaughterhouse.
I can never remember how to spell this.
One of those words that, to me, just does not sound like what it is--happily!
"For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
I once lived in an old abattoir in Chicago. there were meathooks attached to the wood ceiling beams.
The ox was slaughtered in the abattoir.