I wonder if "tsk tsk" - made at the front of the mouth - would work with horses? I don't have a horse handy to check.
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DaveC426913
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I was thinking of that one too. Andy Capp's wife Flo always spelled it "Tch".
It's a sound of derision, so a horse might take umbrage with its tone.
Perhaps calling out to the horse
"Do you know what glue is made of?"
would work???
oubliette
noun
noun
- a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling.
Stuff up 
NEW DEFINITION
Secure area
It was a secure area guarded by the the enemies we have been trying to kill for 20 years
How could this happen? It was a secure area
Secure area
It was a secure area guarded by the the enemies we have been trying to kill for 20 years
How could this happen? It was a secure area
From the French oublier, meaning "to forget". You don't even need to throw the key away if you forget where you put the prisoner.
Beaconator
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I think mr Burns has one of those
sculptor
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I use it for the dog
scofflaw
a person who flouts the law, especially by failing to comply with a law that is difficult to enforce effectively.
"scofflaws who have accumulated large debts in unpaid parking tickets"
Definition from Oxford
https://balidiscovery.com/foreigner...ali+Update+#1271&utm_id=Bali+Update+#1271&
May as well give you the article where I found the word
a person who flouts the law, especially by failing to comply with a law that is difficult to enforce effectively.
"scofflaws who have accumulated large debts in unpaid parking tickets"
Definition from Oxford
https://balidiscovery.com/foreigner...ali+Update+#1271&utm_id=Bali+Update+#1271&
May as well give you the article where I found the word
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exchemist
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In English everywhere except N America, this is spelt "plough".
Twelve
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Thanks for your note. So, it's "plough" except in the US. It's "plow" only in American English, isn't it?
exchemist
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I don't know about Canada, which is why I said N America.
There are some Canadians here. Maybe one of them will comment.
DaveC426913
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Both look acceptable from up here.
(Now, that is just as likely because we see so much American content anyway. As they say, America sneezes, Canada catches a cold.)
sculptor
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I’m taught p-l-o-u-g-h
Shall be pronouncé “plow.”
“Zat’s easy w’en you know,” I say,
“Mon Anglais, I’ll get through!”
My teacher say zat in zat case,
O-u-g-h is “oo.”
And zen I laugh and say to him,
“Zees Anglais make me cough.”
He say, “Not ‘coo,’ but in zat word,
O-u-g-h is ‘off.'”
Oh, Sacre bleu! Such varied sounds
Of words makes me hiccough!
He say, “Again mon frien’ ees wrong;
O-u-g-h is ‘up’
In hiccough.” Zen I cry, “No more,
You make my t’roat feel rough.”
“Non, non!” he cry, “you are not right;
O-u-g-h is ‘uff.'”
I say, “I try to spik your words,
I cannot spik zem though.”
“In time you’ll learn, but now you’re wrong!
O-u-g-h is ‘owe.'”
“I’ll try no more, I s’all go mad,
I’ll drown me in ze lough!”
“But ere you drown yourself,” said he,
“O-u-g-h is ‘ock.'”
He taught no more, I held him fast,
And killed him wiz a rough!
exchemist
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It makes me think it should be pronounced to rhyme with so.
Yes but look at the "w".Obviously meant for digging out the soil -like the prow (see what I did there?) of a boat dipping into the waves.
Edit: puzzling over your "casement artefacts" over on TSF