I just learned (@MerriamWebster!) that “bulldoze” is like “Brazil” or “lentils” in having its etymology the wrong way around
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Replying to @mendel
(First came the “push someone around” sense, then came the machine. Lenses are named after lentils, and Brazil is named after brazilwood.)
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Replying to @mendel
I picture Marty McFly, back in time in South America, "This? This is brazilwood." "Brazil! What a wonderful name for this new country!"
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Replying to @plorry
Right, what better name for the place with all the brazilwood?
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Replying to @mendel
Ha, wait, I got my reverse-etymology-fanfic backwards. Okay - this time, McFly is naming a new kind of wood, in what he knows as Brazil...
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