{"id":3677,"date":"2006-09-17T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/09\/17\/snook-brouching-scraling.html"},"modified":"2006-09-17T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T02:51:58","slug":"snook-brouching-scraling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/09\/17\/snook-brouching-scraling\/","title":{"rendered":"snook, brouching, scraling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I usually post words here after I find out what they mean, but I just encountered three words that I can't find relevant definitions for, so I'm gonna post 'em here and see if any of y'all know what they mean.<\/p>\n<p>First, \"snook.\"  A snook is a kind of fish, and there are various places named \"Snook,\" and to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askoxford.com\/concise_oed\/snook?view=uk\">snook<\/a> is to make a particular gesture of contempt, or to show contempt for something.  But in the Johnny Cash song \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockabilly.nl\/lyrics4\/s0173.htm\">Straight A's in Love<\/a>,\" the line \"I began to be a snook at books\" doesn't seem to fit any of those meanings.  It's possible it's a typo or a Mondegreen, but all the sites I can find that have lyrics for that song include that line.<\/p>\n<p>The other two are even more mysterious: on a page about <cite>Star Trek: Phase II<\/cite> at <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/Star_Trek:_Phase_II\">Memory Alpha<\/a>, an episode summary mentions the crew \"brouching and scraling at each other.\"  Brouching?  Scraling?  The terms don't seem to appear anywhere else on the web, or in any dictionaries I have access to, including slang dictionaries.  Typos?  Made-up terms from the episode being described?  I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually post words here after I find out what they mean, but I just encountered three words that I can&#8217;t find relevant definitions for, so I&#8217;m gonna post &#8217;em&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}