Today’s Word Of The Day here in the bleak midwinter comes from the PA Dutch dictionary – and my mother – who always admonished me when I was being too hasty, careless, or sloppy (or in her words, too “schusslic”). I think maybe it’s derived from the root of the verb “schussle,” which is defined as:
I leave it to better German speakers than me to determine whether her schusslic derivation is legit, or whether it’s just the exasperated neologism of weary parents everywhere, at least in the bleak midwinter.
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Love it!
I have it on good authority that your family was not the only one to use it.
Dad was less colorful… he called me “rammy”…. “Ram, Ram, Ram”.