another one for your lexicon
verse (verb)
to play against in a sporting contest
"the auckland blues versed the waikato chiefs on staurday and lost 63-34"
it just doesn't sound right. (the score is true incidentially. if dad was still alive, he would have taunted me for ages about this)
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Is this a new one? I've never heard it before.
ReplyDeleteI does remind me of the word 'ewes' as in 'ewes guy need to c'mon'. Or the kiwi equivalent of Silence of the Lambs - 'shut up ewes'.
ah, billy t, we miss you
ReplyDeleteyes this is a new word
i'm starting to collect them
I like old words with new meanings. Fav at the moment is 'wireless'. We have forgotten the reference to the radio as 'the wireless' but as far as internet connection is concerned, the word is all the rage.
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