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| I got the feeling that the quotation marks in 'harrowing' are there because there is a wording joke. Since I lack vocabulary, I could not understand it, but it felt like a sex joke. Whoroing may be the intended one. (20/11/2020) | | I got the feeling that the quotation marks in 'harrowing' are there because there is a wording joke. Since I lack vocabulary, I could not understand it, but it felt like a sex joke. Whoroing may be the intended one. (20/11/2020) |
− | :by context, it's in quotes because she quotes the biologists. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.231|162.158.91.231]] 17:14, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
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− | :it's also an agricultural term. After you plough the land, you harrow it. The gerund is "harrowing". Probably a typical activity in the type of landscapes the comic references? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.43|162.158.158.43]] 20:07, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
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− | :Another possible definition could be this, from the ''Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina'' series? [https://riverdale.fandom.com/wiki/Harrowing]
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− | :: To harrow and to plough (plow) were methods of "tilling fertile soil" (old sense of tilling). As such, both terms were used as euphemisms for coitus (or to ravish) as in, "He harrowed his wife." "Harrowing" as a word (not a gerund) means "acutely distressing" as in, "Joe had a harrowing experience," and breeding Blair witches certainly would be such an experience, if they were real. So I think Randall has pulled off a truly epic pun. [[User:CoyneT|CoyneT]] ([[User talk:CoyneT|talk]]) 04:50, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
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