facetiousness

  • 101car|ri|witch|et — «KAR ee WIHCH iht», noun. 1. a piece of jocularity or facetiousness. 2. = pun. (Cf. ↑pun) 3. a tricky question; conundrum. Also, carwitchet. ╂[origin unknown] …

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  • 102WOLFE, HUMBERT — (Umberto Wolff; 1885–1940), English poet and critic. He was born in Milan but was taken as a baby to Bradford, England, where his father was a wool merchant. He was naturalized in 1891. Wolfe was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Oxford and …

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