[Episcopal News Service] Fifty years ago, on the morning of Aug. 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French highwire artist, made history when he wire-walked on a 131-foot cable, 1,350 feet above the ground…
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[Episcopal News Service] Fifty years ago, on the morning of Aug. 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French highwire artist, made history when he wire-walked on a 131-foot cable, 1,350 feet above the ground…
nuddle
Back in the 1500s, nuddle had a few meanings that congregated low to the ground: To nuddle was to push something along with your nose or nudge forward in some other horizontal manner. By the 1800s, nuddle started referring to stooped walking, the kind of non-jaunty mosey in which someone’s head is hanging low. You can hear a touch of contempt in a phrase from an 1854 glossary by A. E. Baker: “How he goes nuddling along.” Credits to Mark Peters.
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