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While Dr. Hinkle admits he has barely scratched the surface in his article, yet in Street-Language Naming Practices in the Hispanic Drug and Underworld Subcultures, he goes into great detail and tells us quite a bit (e.g., that a snort of cocaine is called a narizón , from the Spanish nariz, nose, which compares to English slang snootful).
Meanwhile, what do you suppose the cook told his family that night when they asked why he was so tattered and scratched: “You'll never guess what that crazy missionary asked me to do today!”
On the Via dell’Abbondanza running east from the Forum, those are ancient, not modern graffiti you find scratched and daubed in red on the walls of the houses and shops.
While proclaiming that the United States has finally lost its virgin naiveté about domestic terrorism, pundits scratched their heads over why the trial didn't mesmerize the nation the way the Simpson and Rodney King cases did.
While we scratched our heads figuring out how he could e-mail his colleague from my workstation, a third friend came up and suggested, "Why not use the telephone?"