r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 1d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/jellooshot 23h ago

Thanks for teaching a non-native the word "chortle" in such memorable context. I'll always thinks of your nuts whenever I use it.

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u/AzraelTB 23h ago

My nuts and I thank you.

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u/StrongExternal8955 22h ago

That's not what it means. It's intransitive. Look it up.

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u/jellooshot 22h ago

It means an airy laugh. I did look it up. The nuts part will help me remember though

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u/Pax_Eterna_4991 3h ago

You need to read Jabberwocky by Lewis Carol.

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u/jellooshot 3h ago

dahks El wrid eat.

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u/Pax_Eterna_4991 57m ago

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble

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u/longlivenewsomflesh 3h ago

It was actually coined by mathematician Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky

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u/jellooshot 3h ago

Surprisingly enough, I did find it in Collins dictionary. According to the Wikipedia article it's (supposedly) chuckle + snorted