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It is time for yet another dose of "laughter relief"
![]() ![]() I particularly like the long description of Japan and of samurai culture as such and the ultimate evidence of the sword's originality: an inscription on the blade. Anybody can translate? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1 Note: the rust is so fresh it falls off the blade! |
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
...I'm just suprised he didn't mention Miyamoto Musashi ![]() BTW.....what's a pucker? ![]() |
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Yep, another Chinese crapper sword and he's using graphics from
my website to boot ! I've complained to ebay about this for years to no avail; finally have given up even trying. Rich S |
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Ariel:
A few synonyms for "pucker" abbreviate, agitation, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, befuddlement, bewilderment, bother, botheration, cankerworm of care, care, chaos, circumscribe, cloud, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress, concentrate, concern, concernment, condense, confusion, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate, corrugation, cramp, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crinkling, crumple, curtail, daze, decrease, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dither, draw, draw in, draw together, dread, embarrassment, fear, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, fog, fold, foofaraw, foreboding, forebodingness, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, furrow, fuss, gather, haze, inquietude, jumble, knit, knot, lather, malaise, maze, mess, misgiving, mist, muddle, muddlement, narrow, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, overanxiety, perplexity, perturbation, pins and needles, pleat, pother, pucker up, purse, reduce, ridge, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruche, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, screw up, shirr, shirring, shorten, shuffle, solicitude, solidify, squeeze, stew, strain, strangle, strangulate, suspense, sweat, swivet, tension, tighten, tizzy, trouble, tuck, twitter, twitteration, uneasiness, unquietness, unsettlement, upset, vexation, wimple, wrinkle, wrinkling, zeal |
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I think the seller is using the word "pucker" in the Anglo/Indian form which means good or the real thing. Pucker is still in common parlance in the UK along with many other Anglo/Indian words like doolally, buckshee, shoofty not sure if that is the correct spelling, and many more. Tim
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Tim:
I've only come across the British Colonial form of "pucker" in relation to people -- real, authentic, high quality -- what we might call a "stand up" guy. Is it also used to describe inanimate objects? Ian. |
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HI Ian,
Pukka, I think that is the correct spelling, can be used to say a thing is good , strangely I do not think it is used to discribe people, a list of these words and there meanings would be fasinating but off subject. Tim |
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The Oxford Dictionary has - pu'kka adjective (Anglo-Ind.) Of full weight;genuine;permanent.[Hindi]
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Can anyone make out the strange "Japanese" writing on the blade...
![]() I have never seen anything like it on a Japanese sword before, usually you see it written in Russian (okay, Lithuanian... or is it Gaelic). ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Hello BSMStar,
yes, I have seen the writing on the blade. It seems that there was someone who has heard of the well known Solingen sword manufacturer Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie but did not know how to write it ![]() Greetings, Helge |
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German... I should have known. Thank you ingelred.
Solingen made great Japanese swords... Ok, once... in China... for WWI. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can just see reading the tang now... Made this lucky day year 79 showa in Solingen (Middle Country). ![]() Happy Holidays all!!!!!! ![]() |
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