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I wonder if the whole ‘brownie’ myth started …

Comment posted on Part 7 of Halloween Series by snakebyte42

I wonder if the whole ‘brownie’ myth started out as homeless people sneaking into someone’s house, eating their food, then feeling guilty and cleaning their house as recompensation

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Tantalizing
If you don’t mean Sisyphean, no idea. If we’re going for Greco-Roman eponyms, though, how’s Pyrrhic?
Hot dog!
Spotted Dick.
A very SCARY word!
Okay, gonna address the below comments in order because I know some of them, then make my own
vezen: Irrigation is ‘irrigate’ and ‘tion’ (Or whatever, it’s a suffix, dunno how it’s normally written). It’s not ‘ir’ and ‘rigation’. To irrigate something means to supply it with water.

prospero811: irrefutable is ir + refutable. Refutable is refute + able. There is no ‘fute’. To refute something means to overthrow it by argument, evidence, or proof.

boilerpsycho, senior, and beezhan: AGREED.

I can’t stand ‘irregardless’ and I cringe when people use it as well. It’s the same with ‘flammable’, which you covered earlier. Inflammable is inflame + able, not in + flammable. You can’t flame something, you inflame things. -.-
Nightmare
I’d always heard that the word ‘nightmare’ was a contraction of ‘riding the night mare’, in reference to how one tosses and turns in his sleep when he’s having a nightmare. Is there any basis to that?