penpalshipn.
/ˈpɛnpalʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈpɛnˌpælˌʃɪp/ A relationship between pen pals.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friendship > relationship between penfriends
penfriendship1909
penpalship1960
penpalmanship1966
1960 20th Cent. June 517 There are some rather elaborate plans for forming relationships with individual Alphas, on the lines of the children's pen palships in the twentieth-century newspapers.
1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 22 May 25/6 An intriguing pre-summit ‘penpalship’, between an inspector of Soviet jails and a New York Times columnist.
2002 Boston Globe (Nexis) 10 Feb. (City Weekly section) 1 A waterfront dinner..with my Finnish cousin as we meet for the first time after a seventeen-year penpalship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1960- you tell her
- you tell him
- you tell me
- you tell us
- you understand what i mean
- you wait till
- you wait until
- you wait!
- you wee beauty
- you wee dancer
- you win
- you win some, you lose some
- you wish
- you won't catch etc
- you won't catch her
- you won't catch him
- you won't catch me
- you wot not what
- you wot what
- you wouldn't read about it
- you you're welcome
- you'd be surprised
- you'etc a fine one to talk
- you'etc toast
- you'he's a fine one to talk