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popty ping!
Aug 13, 2007 10:11
The Welsh word for microwave is popty ping -- literally "oven that goes ping." It's used as a verb, too, so that you say, The Welsh rugby (cricket, soccer, hockey, hurling) team was Popty Pinged by Ireland at Croke Park yesterday.
Thank you,
wordweaverlynn
, for this important vocabulary update.
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