- Chagrined
- From the Turkish saghri, a rough-surfaced leather. We call this material “shagreen”. It was the French who started using it metaphorically for “that which frets or worries the mind” (OED), and when we followed suit we adopted their spelling too.
- Bewildered
- In deserto.
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August 18th, 2003 at 1:29 pm
Here’s a link to the clip from the Daily Show:
http://ftp.archive.org/movies/lisarein/tvclips/dailyaugust2003/8-12-03-fairandbalanced.mov
Courtesy of boingboing.net!
August 19th, 2003 at 11:06 pm
Thanks! Good ol’ Lisa Rein.