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Fold Socks Without Stretching the Elastic leshy shares a new way to fold socks that keeps them in better condition:
From The Tips Box: Folding Socks, Magic Erasers, Bad Tasting Water | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Fold Socks Without Stretching the Elastic leshy shares a new way to fold socks that keeps them in better condition:
From The Tips Box: Folding Socks, Magic Erasers, Bad Tasting Water | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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He was about fifty, a big man, f leshy, with incipient jowls, and he was overf lowing his trousers and smoking a cigar that exactly suited him.
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He was about fifty, a big man, f leshy, with incipient jowls, and he was overf lowing his trousers and smoking a cigar that exactly suited him.
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The useful types such as unicorns are everywhere, of course, but what you may encounter in the Canadian woods will be a wendigo, not a leshy; the few surviving fire-drakes are now banned from military use -- never very practical anyway -- and safely in European zoos; et cetera.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
whichbe commented on the word leshy
In Slavic mythology, "forest spirit." The leshy is a sportive spirit who enjoys playing tricks on people, though when angered can be treacherous. He is seldom seen, but his voice can be heard in the forest laughing, whistling, or singing. When the leshy is spotted, he can be easily recognized, for, though he often has the appearance of a man, his eyebrows, eyelashes, and right ear are missing and his head is somewhat pointed. In his native forest the leshy is as talls as the trees, but, the moment he steps beyond, he shrinks to the size of grass.
The Ukrainians living in steppe country lack a fully articulated leshy and know about him from hearsay. (From Merriam-Websters's Encyclopedia of World Religions)
August 5, 2008
yarb commented on the word leshy
I hate to admit it, but I too lack a fully articulated leshy.
August 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word leshy
A brave lesser leshy confession, yarb.
August 6, 2008