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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.

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CalifJim  #539635  Fri, 11 Jul 08 02:58 AM
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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.

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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
  
CalifJim  #539643  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:09 AM
Hee, hee.  It was a joke!  Big Smile

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. 

  
New2grammar  #539644  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:10 AM
Sad How should I have worded my question? Is the question ambiguous or Is that the only possible interpretation?
  
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?
  
CalifJim  #539649  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:14 AM
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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 

  
New2grammar  #539650  Fri, 11 Jul 08 03:15 AM
HAHAH Smile
  
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."

  
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