4/13/2008 You're Welcome

Cassie (my super sister in law) came and visited this weekend from Harlan county Kentucky and we had tons of fun. We spent lots of time outside in the sunshine, made a killer supper of fresh Morelle mushrooms Jason found at the Forks of the River park, and after dark we played music with Dan Jones. Today Cassie, Fox and I went to the fabric store and Cassie stocked up on crafty stuff unavailable in Harlan county. This weekend rated pretty high on the weekendometer.
Yesterday Cassie and I were playing with Fox in his room and she picked up a little toy and commented on how cute it was and asked where it came from. While trying to explain that my Uncle Charles had given it to him, I invented a new word:

Drun*kel -noun
1. a brother of one's father or mother who is drunk
2. an aunt's drunk husband
3. a familiar title or term of address for any elderly, drunk man
4. Slang. a drunk pawnbroker
5. (initial capital letter) Informal. Drunkle Sam
6. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter D: "...the third letter is D as in the word drunkle"
7. say or cry drunkle, Informal. to concede defeat by alcohol: After twelve jagerbombs, four double martinis, a gin and tonic and a Miller Highlife, Jessie heard his drunkle cry, just before urinating in his pants and passing out.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < AF uncle, OF oncle < L avunculus mother's brother, equiv. to av(us) mother's father + -unculus. Prefix extracted from (Origin: 1300–50) ME drunken, OE druncen, ptp. of drincan to DRINK.]

Drunkle is a great, new word you can use when referring to your drunk uncle without having to go into lots of details if you don't want to.