Boots

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  anyone mind sharing the… other definition… I know it, I just want to make sure you know it too

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  • pipe01@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • sepi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How you do that by getting them pregnant?

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    • decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t that be “impermeated”

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  … yes…

  can i watch?

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• EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Having bought 3 whole pairs of boots in my life, and one of them actually expensive, I have no idea what this means.

  Based on the context of fluffy tops, I’m guessing snow boots, and impregnating in this context is impregnating the boot material with a waterproofing agent of some kind.

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  • harmbugler@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Based on the context of fluffy tops

    That’s… still ambiguous

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• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My first job out of college my boss told me to machine something out of “teflon impregnated delrin”, which is like slippery machinable plastic. Just stared at him for a while to see if he was serious.

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• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Of course I want miniature versions on top of the regular ones”

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “No, I’d prefer to do it myself, thank you.”

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  • Haaveilija@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You have big shoes to fill

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