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#199037 - Wed Oct 29 2003 11:48 AM Old names for animal droppings
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As I've tried to revive some old letters, here are some names from the middle ages when animal husbandry was far more important, and many animal's doings had their own names:

Fox- Waggying
Boar- Friants
Badger- Werderobe
Deer- Fumet
Hare- Crotels
Otter- Spraints

Fumet and spraints are still in use, but any new ones will be welcome. Excuse me
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#199038 - Wed Oct 29 2003 04:44 PM Re: Old names for animal droppings
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The mind just boggles satguru What a fabulous little snippet.

Just imagine if a badger made it into your bedroom closet.

Werderobes in your wardrobe!

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#199039 - Fri Oct 31 2003 03:22 PM Re: Old names for animal droppings
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Or if an army of hares invaded your vacation lodging...Crotels in your hotel!
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#199040 - Sat Nov 01 2003 07:50 AM Re: Old names for animal droppings
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Oh, you've started me off now- If a joke shop made large rubber boar plops, it would be...




Giant pliant friants
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#199041 - Sat Nov 01 2003 08:43 AM Re: Old names for animal droppings
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Or if van Gogh got a pet otter -- spraints in his paints!

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#199042 - Sat Nov 01 2003 08:57 AM Re: Old names for animal droppings
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And what if some boars came near a giant ? Friants near giants !

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#199043 - Sat Nov 01 2003 09:31 AM Re: Old names for animal droppings
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Or if you walk your pet fox in a public park, you'd find yourself baggy-ing the waggying.
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#199044 - Sat Nov 01 2003 09:37 AM Re: Old names for animal droppings
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Check this out...talk about confusion of meanings! This is fumet from dictionary.com:

fumet

\Fu`met"\, n. [F.] A high-flavored substance, such as extract of game, for flavoring dishes of food; less properly, a ragout of partridge and rabbit braised in wine.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


fumet

\Fu"met\, n. [Cf. F. fumier dung, OF. femier, fr. L. fimus dung.] The dung of deer. --B. Jonson.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


fumet

\Fu"met\Fumette \Fu*mette"\, n. [F. fumet odor, fume of wine or meat, fr. L. fumus smoke. See Fume, n.] The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long. --Swift.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Old school French chefs were apparently pretty crafty...
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#199045 - Sat Nov 01 2003 09:39 AM Re: Old names for animal droppings
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Which brings us to a confused toilet-trained deer lost in your mansion, leaving no evidence of its "passing" save fumet in your bidet.
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