Cutting circumbendibus is that thing you do when you spot someone you really don’t want to talk to, so you dart across an alley or do anything to avoid saying hello. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Cutting Circumbendibus”
When Joan called us and asked us if there was a word for your old friend, what you would call a person that you could reconnect with after years and feel like no time had passed, I read to you a little bit of a slang dictionary from John Badcock.
But there’s one particular term that I wanted to really make sure I got out there, and this is to cut circumbindibus.
Cut circumbindibus. You see a friend down the street and you try to avoid them. He writes, you dart up an alley, dash across the street, slip into a shop, or do anything to avoid the trouble of nodding to someone.
And that’s to cut circumventibus. I might have done that a couple of times. Maybe once or twice.
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