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2 months ago she said:

Nope; -ril seems to be an arbitrary tacking-on.
Oh, certainly! And you do have marmiton (from French, Marmite + -oon): 'An assistant to a chef or cook; a kitchen servant doing menial work, a scullion.'

2 months ago gangerh said:

That's fascinating, she. I get the 'Bov' bit which I'd never noticed before! Is the 'ril' bit explicable?
And is 'marmitize' relevant here? Or is it too soon to go there again? Added.

2 months ago she said:

v., To concentrate the essence of; to epitomize, condense.

From Bovril, the proprietary name of a concentrated essence of beef, invented in 1889 by J. Lawson Johnston. (Holy sh░t.)

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