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	New2grammar  #539629  Fri, 11 Jul 08 02:52 AM What do you call the action of using the inside of your finger to remove a smear of peanut butter from the inside of the jar? Not dipping. Thanks.    New2grammar Joined on Tue, Nov 21 2006 Veteran Member (7,670) Who wants to go sailing around the world with me?

	CalifJim  #539635  Fri, 11 Jul 08 02:58 AM New2grammar What do you call the action of using the inside of your finger to remove a smear of peanut butter from the inside of the jar? Crude. CJ     CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member (16,956) "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche
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	New2grammar  #539636  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:02 AM She cruded the peanut butter jar and licked her finger. Is the usage correct? By the way, crude is not a verb in my dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crude    New2grammar
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	CalifJim  #539643  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:09 AM Hee, hee.  It was a joke!  What do you call the action ...? I call it crude! I call it a crude action! www.m-w.com:  crude:  marked by the primitive, gross, or elemental or by uncultivated simplicity or vulgarity CJ  PS.  I don't know of a verb that covers such a specific gesture.     CalifJim
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	New2grammar  #539644  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:10 AM How should I have worded my question? Is the question ambiguous or Is that the only possible interpretation?    New2grammar

	New2grammar  #539648  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:13 AM Something like the opposite of unsmear? Don't you always do it when you remove batter from a bowl?    New2grammar

	CalifJim  #539649  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:14 AM New2grammar How should I have worded my question? Just as you did.  The question is not really ambiguous.  It means just what you wanted it to mean.  Nevertheless it's just ambiguous enough for some clown like me to have some fun with it! Another similar example: -- Our company is millions of dollars in debt!!  How are we going to solve this terrible problem? -- Very carefully. CJ     CalifJim
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	New2grammar  #539650  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:15 AM HAHAH    New2grammar

	khoff  #539651  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:17 AM There's nothing wrong with your question (except maybe "the inside of your finger" -- to me, that sounds like the place where the bones, muscles, etc. are) -- CJ was just saying that it's not polite to put your finger in the peanut butter -- you should use a knife or a spoon.  To descibe the action, though, you could say "He scooped up some peanut buttter with his finger."    khoff Joined on Sun, Mar 6 2005 Denver, Colorado, USA, Earth Senior Member (2,569) Native speaker of American English (but not a grammar expert)