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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
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peanut butter

What do you call the action of using the inside of your finger to remove a smear of peanut butter from the inside of the jar? Not dipping.

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New2grammar What do you call the action of using the inside of your finger to remove a smear of peanut butter from the inside of the jar? Crude. CJ

  • New2grammar What do you call the action of using the inside of your finger to remove a smear of peanut butter from the inside of the jar?
  • Crude.
  • CJ
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New2grammarWhat do you call the action of using the inside of your finger to remove a smear of peanut butter from the inside of the jar?
Crude.
CJ
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She cruded the peanut butter jar and licked her finger.

Is the usage correct? By the way, crude is not a verb in my dictionary.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crude
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Hee, hee. It was a joke! Emotion: big smile

What do you call the action ...?
I call it crude!
I call it a crude action!
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Emotion: sad How should I have worded my question? Is the question ambiguous or Is that the only possible interpretation?
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Something like the opposite of unsmear? Don't you always do it when you remove batter from a bowl?
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New2grammarHow should I have worded my question?
Just as you did. The question is not really ambiguous. It means just what you wanted it to mean. Nevertheless it's just ambiguous enough for some clown like me to have some fun with it!
Another similar example:
-- Our company is millions of dollars in debt!! How are we going to solve this terribl
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There's nothing wrong with your question (except maybe "the inside of your finger" -- to me, that sounds like the place where the bones, muscles, etc. are) -- CJ was just saying that it's not polite to put your finger in the peanut butter -- you should use a knife or a spoon. To descibe the action, though, you could say "He scooped up some peanut buttter with his finger."
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khoff,
scooped? Why does that not sound right to me?
On the other hand, it does call to mind scraped.
He scraped the side of the jar with his finger.
He scraped his finger along/against the side of the jar to get the last bit of peanut butter.
What do you think?
CJ
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khoffmaybe "the inside of your finger" -- to me, that sounds like the place where the bones, muscles, etc. are
Really???? I have heard the inside of a thigh and the inside of an arm.
khoffCJ was just saying that it's not polite to put your finger in the peanut butter
I understand. But I want to learn all possible ways to exp

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