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"Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take---and sometimes Tea."
--Alexander Pope, "The Rape of the Lock," Canto III
It is important to keep zeugmatic tires properly inflated.
Zounds!
Zoiks! ;-)
I was thinking of it as an unpleasant oath playing on the letter zee. ;-) For instance, Great zooming zits, that's ugly!
Zooming zits? Lucky you, mine usually just plod along.
I agree, it is an unlikely sounding word. Zooming zits!
Love the concept, don't really care for the word itself tho. It sounds like some kind of disease. Or maybe a car. "Try the new Zeugma - 50 miles to the gallon!"
Ha! I used the Groucho Marx quotation this week, and it was the first thing that came to mind when I read the definition of zeugma!
compare with syllepsis
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
--Groucho Marx