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New word for me from book, 'Ruption'??

New word for me from book, 'Ruption'??

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Anyone know what it means? I got it from a sci fi story I am readiing called 'Pandora's Star', in the context of a girl seen with scanty clothes
not causing a 'ruption'. Obviously you can add an e and it's eruption
but only found referances to name brands and so forth, E-ruption and the like. Could this just be a typo?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Anyone know what it means? I got it from a sci fi story I am readiing called 'Pandora's Star', in the context of a girl seen with scanty clothes
not causing a 'ruption'. Obviously you can add an e and it's eruption
but only found referances to name brands and so forth, E-ruption and the like. Could this just be a typo?
Its from Rupture.

Rupture a lung, spleen , burst pipe .etc

Ruption.

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Originally posted by celticcountry
Its from Rupture.

Rupture a lung, spleen , burst pipe .etc

Ruption.
So he is referring to the Janet Jackson effect?

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Disruption

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
Disruption
As in 'Disruption is not as bad as datruption'

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Anyone know what it means? I got it from a sci fi story I am readiing called 'Pandora's Star', in the context of a girl seen with scanty clothes
not causing a 'ruption'. Obviously you can add an e and it's eruption
but only found referances to name brands and so forth, E-ruption and the like. Could this just be a typo?
From a 1960s SOED:
Ruption. Now rare. 1483. [ ad. obs. F. ruption, or late L. ruptio, f. rumpere. ]
1. Breach of the peace; disturbance (rare). 2. Breaking or rupture of some membrane or tissue of the animal body 1541.

I think she meant meaning 1.

Trust a skiffy author to spice up his stories with words the OED calls "rare", BTW.

Richard

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Originally posted by Shallow Blue
From a 1960s SOED:
[b]Ruption. Now rare. 1483. [ ad. obs. F. ruption, or late L. ruptio, f. rumpere. ]
1. Breach of the peace; disturbance (rare). 2. Breaking or rupture of some membrane or tissue of the animal body 1541.

I think she meant meaning 1.

Trust a skiffy author to spice up his stories with words the OED calls "rare", BTW.

Richard[/b]
Ah, interesting. Thanks. I love old dictionaries, I collect them, those big unabridged jobs with the WWII faded pictures and such. You can get them at yard sales. The older the better! Just for that reason to find derelect words.