Blaaaaaargh! Want Lawn-Weeds! Weeds goooood! Dandelion! I pick! I shove to your nose and growl, "Like Butter?" I laugh because you don't but look silly with yellow crap on your shnoz! Hahaha! Rooaaarrr! See DEAD Dandelion! I will pick and blow the weed-eggs into the air! Maybe if lucky get spittle on your face while doing so!
1513, from M.Fr. dent de lion, lit. "lion's tooth" (from its toothed leaves), transl. of M.L. dens leonis. Other folk names, like tell-time refer to the custom of telling the time by blowing the white seed (the number of puffs required to blow them all off supposedly being the number of the hour), or to the plant's more authentic diuretic qualities, preserved in M.E. piss-a-bed and Fr. pissenlit.
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Blaaaaaargh! Want Lawn-Weeds! Weeds goooood!
Dandelion! I pick! I shove to your nose and growl, "Like Butter?" I laugh because you don't but look silly with yellow crap on your shnoz! Hahaha!
Rooaaarrr! See DEAD Dandelion! I will pick and blow the weed-eggs into the air! Maybe if lucky get spittle on your face while doing so!
Hahahahaaaaaaa *kaff*... oh, crap. Gots allergies.
Great memory encapsulated here...and isnt dandelion a lovely word?
1513, from M.Fr. dent de lion, lit. "lion's tooth" (from its toothed leaves), transl. of M.L. dens leonis. Other folk names, like tell-time refer to the custom of telling the time by blowing the white seed (the number of puffs required to blow them all off supposedly being the number of the hour), or to the plant's more authentic diuretic qualities, preserved in M.E. piss-a-bed and Fr. pissenlit.
p.s. YESSSS, I've always loved the word dandelion...and I always like to pronounce it 'dente-de-leon', like one of them Frenchies.
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