On Nov 25, 11:52 pm, tlvp <
mPiOsUcB.EtLlL...@att.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:37:43 -0800 (PST), luser- -droog wrote:
> > Subject: what kind of a word is "ovular"?
> Did you mean *Spanish* "ovular" (verbo intransitivo), to ovulate ?
> Or *English* "ovular" (adj.), related to or having to do with (ova) eggs ?
>
> Cheers, -- tlvp
> --
> Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.
I was either quoting or mis-quoting Anthony Perkins from
Orson Welles' The Trial. It's the scene at the beginning
where he's arguing with the strange men (police?) who
show up in his room. One of them notices a shape on the
floor and the other one desribes it as an "ovular" shape.
So: egg-shaped, as a euphemism for anything "not quite an
ellipse".