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Playing with the words of “uncertain origin” is like solving a puzzle: at its most imaginative but speculative worst, it amounts to a guess founded on assumptions and other guesses; and at its best, it is the formulation of a plausible solution based on a handful of genuine if limited clues that in the end also amount to a guess, albeit an informed and educated one.
(Best guesses: 12 billion years; absorption of carbon dioxide by grasses lowers temperatures; to process memories; not the foggiest idea.)
Knocked for a feather meaning `greatly surprised' could be a humorous blend of knocked for a loop and knocked over with a feather , just as fleazy is perhaps a blend of flea and sleazy . To go on a bilge or drinking spree used by three Northern informants is perhaps an alteration of to go on a binge , or perhaps a punning alteration, or perhaps a pronunciation variant, with l substituted for n , as in chimney/chimley . For lack of evidence, all of these derivations are essentially guesses.
As for Ved Mehta, he reports that Shawn's favorite thing to watch on television was "people dancing uninhibitedly" ( Soul Train , one guesses).
Howard Kurtz (NBC's Meet the Press ) guesses that the White House will continue its "stonewall" by claiming that Willey's allegations, which have been known for weeks, are old news and deserve no comment.