Comment on Boots

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• pipe01@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Apparently it means making them water and dust resistant or something like that

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  • gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It derives from “to soak” or “to saturate” because they saturate the fabric with some resin (i think) to fill the voids between the strings, so it becomes (mostly) impermeable to water.

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    • NightFantom@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, if you think of “filling up” as the definition it’s pretty easy

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    • appearexpressspot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ha, soaking

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  • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Interesting. I wonder what the etomological origin of that word is. Cuz whenever my husband gets me pregnant, I do not feel impervious to water or dust.

    And in Spanish it just means “question.”

    But if spanish-speaking person A hears person B say they’re “embarrassed,” A might think B is pregnant.

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      impregnar ≠ preguntar

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      • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        ≠ prego spaghetti sauce

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    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “imprégner” in french, close enough

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  • sepi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How you do that by getting them pregnant?

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  • decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t that be “impermeated”

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    • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      unimpermeable

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