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As Someone Who Is Not From West Virginia, could someone please define that phrase? The closest phrase I've heard that sounds like that is "give 'em blood 'n vinegar", from the Redwall novels (spoken just before going to battle)


Odd, I thought that porcupines would instinctively know how to kiss without their quills getting in the way.


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The JAM wrote:Who Is Not From West Virginia, could someone please define that phrase? The closest phrase I've heard that sounds like that is "give 'em blood 'n vinegar", from the Redwall novels (spoken just before going to battle)
Not being from WV, I still know what it means. Basically, it means that the person has moxie ... um, I mean jumption ... dang, this is harder than I thought.

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Actually the "correct" phrase is "pi$$ & vinegar"......tho' lots of folks clean it up and say 'spit' instead. But Mjolnir is right....it means that ya got a lotta guts, moxie....etc.

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spunk and energy, and the guts to use it.

but it seems to be more of an "extroverted" term and being "interverted" makes it foreign to me.
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Which is why it applies to Zelda so well.
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If she's full of vinegar than that quill mustve STUNG! :D
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Wonder if they are mixing up spit and polish with pi$$ and vineger anyway its nice to see her mom supporting her and hopefully she can go back on as the " new " Zelda with an attitude adjustment.

Hmmm I wonder if when she first goes back on if Gill would call in that might be just the thing to bring back her gumption , giving Gill a piece of her mind might just overcome any shyness she still has.
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What is moxie? :(
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Gengar003 wrote:What is moxie? :(
Guts, fortitude......the courage to take a chance on yourself. Agressive energy..initiative.

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Gengar003 wrote:What is moxie? :(
And it also is the name of the oldest cola product made in the US "Moxie Cola" founded in 1884. It was touted that drinking it might (the keword here is might) give the drinker the aforementioned traits. The company coined the word and its meaning.

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Gengar003 wrote:What is moxie? :(
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=moxie]mox
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stop making us definitionly and grammatically correct, it's no fun when there is nothing to pointlessly argue about until everyone forgets what we were all talking about to bagin with. :D
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Tbolt wrote:
Gengar003 wrote:What is moxie? :(
And it also is the name of the oldest cola product made in the US "Moxie Cola" founded in 1884. It was touted that drinking it might (the keword here is might) give the drinker the aforementioned traits. The company coined the word and its meaning.

And that is our useless fact for today! :D

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