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Bizarro word play

Today’s Bizarro:

canoe and canoodle

They have, apparently, nothing to do with one another (though you can, of course, canoodle in a canoe,

On canoodle, from NOAD2:

verb [no obj.] informal    kiss and cuddle amorously: she was caught canoodling with her boyfriend. ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (originally US): of unknown origin.

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2 Responses to “Bizarro word play”

  1. Bob Richmond Says:
    December 10, 2014 at 6:34 am | Reply

    King David Kalākaua (1836-1891), Merrie Monarch of Hawai’i, was famously caught canoodling when he was supposed to be canoeing.

  2. arnold zwicky Says:
    January 2, 2015 at 1:03 am | Reply

    Jan Freeman took up the canoe – canoodle connection (or, rather, lack of it) in a blog posting of 10/4/12, “Can Boston Claim Canoodling?”, here:
    http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2012/10/04/canoodle-jan-freeman

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