The windows don't always have glass! European castles just had open spaces for a long time. I'm envisioning throwing the body back where it came from. Not that that would happen. But your claim was provocative.
defenestration is a word because people used to throw a lot of stuff (including slop and excrement) out of windows. little was thrown in, so we did not develop a word.
there are lost of words that have a negative but no positive.
My father, gone now, taught me that men always walk on the outside, say on a sidewalk, or boulevard, for that very reason. In the age of chivalry, I guess, chamberpot liquids hurled out windows and women trussed up in bonnets and layers of petticoats with whalebone stays. No Whirlpool or GE or dry cleaning either, so easier on the servant class. A kind of trickle down (so to speak) compassion, inadvertent but real.
I don't know. Maybe because if you throw something out a window you can't repair the glass by throwing them back through?
But if it were an odious bureaucrat I'd try to defy reality
Is "odious bureaucrat" not a bit redundant?
And once the odious creature has successfully been defenestrated, why on earth would one ever want to toss it back? Even to fix the window?
Asking for a friend.
The windows don't always have glass! European castles just had open spaces for a long time. I'm envisioning throwing the body back where it came from. Not that that would happen. But your claim was provocative.
defenestration is a word because people used to throw a lot of stuff (including slop and excrement) out of windows. little was thrown in, so we did not develop a word.
there are lost of words that have a negative but no positive.
gormless.
i've never seen gorm or gormful as a positive.
My father, gone now, taught me that men always walk on the outside, say on a sidewalk, or boulevard, for that very reason. In the age of chivalry, I guess, chamberpot liquids hurled out windows and women trussed up in bonnets and layers of petticoats with whalebone stays. No Whirlpool or GE or dry cleaning either, so easier on the servant class. A kind of trickle down (so to speak) compassion, inadvertent but real.
Das Fenster is German for The Window.
affenestration ought to work, if we ever need one.
I know you can be overwhelmed, and I know you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?
Defenestration is so apparently so common there is not just one, but two, defenestrations of Prague!
three actually
The defenestrations of Prague
Gormful - wise or full of wisdom and common sense.
See, it's easy.
Alright I'm going to shut up now
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