Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday 25 September 2022

One of my favourite English words :

Crestfallen.

I imagine a sad cock (male fowl) or parrot,
and indeed:
                     crestfallen (adj.)
"dejected, dispirited," 1580s, creast falne...

 Crest-risen –"proud, lusty" is from 1610s.


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