Marnie, Courtesy of the online American Heritage Dictionary:
SYLLABICATION: brick·bat PRONUNCIATION: brkbt NOUN: 1. A piece, especially of brick, used as a weapon or missile. 2. An unfavorable remark; a criticism. ETYMOLOGY: brick + bat1, piece of brick. WORD HISTORY: The earliest sense of brickbat, first recorded in 1563, was a piece of brick. Such pieces of brick have not infrequently been thrown at others in the hope of injuring them; hence, the figurative brickbats (first recorded in 1929) that critics hurl at performances they dislike. The appearance of bat as the second part of this compound is explained by the fact that the word bat, war club, cudgel, developed in Middle English the sense chunk, clod, wad, and in the 16th century came to be used specifically for a piece of brick that was unbroken on one end. Rick --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Plaudits and brickbats welcomed. > > Rick > ====== > Fun shot, good use of fisheye. > > BTW, what is a brickbat anyway? > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
