--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Georgie Hinklemyer"
<samoolives_at_y...> wrote:
> What the *BLEEP* is a zeugma?!?
> And don't tell me to read your *%$# blog because I don't go there.
From good ol' Merriam-Webster Online (
http://www.m-w.com )...
Main Entry: zeugˇma
Pronunciation: 'züg-m&
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, from Greek, literally, joining, from zeugnynai to
join; akin to Latin jungere to join -- more at YOKE
: the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in
such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes
sense with only one (as in "opened the door and her heart to the
homeless boy")
Received on 2004-02-09 00:17:49