Stephanie of Humanities Researcher, clearly homesick enough in Philadelphia to be reading the Age online, notes an expression she has never seen before.
Newly evolved usage, or sub-editorial bingle?
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In which the pond enters the reptile war zone, and is trapped in a hell
hole bunker with "Ned", the bromancer and the Ughmann for an ungodly twenty
minutes or so ...
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Today was the day the reptiles went all in ...
There's no way that the pond could carpet bomb that mob into submission.
Instead the pond had to cho...
30 minutes ago
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To tell you the truth, the expression I find more surprising is 'bingle'. I've never heard that word before.
:-)
I first heard it used to mean 'relatively minor car crash' and liked it so much that I expanded it to apply to a broad range of non-disastrous cockups. Some may have thought it was a typo for 'bungle', but no. A bingle is usually the result of a bungle.
To say nothing of "kitty bingle", to describe their less than friendly encounters (usually at night, accompanied by that ghastly screeching they do).
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