[HPFGU-OTChatter] "Your Holeyness"

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

zanooda:
> I noticed that in chapter 8 ("The Wedding")Fred teases George
>  differently in American and British editions. In Am.ed. it's  "Your
>  Holeyness", but in Br.ed. it's  "Lugless". I'm not a native English
>  speaker, and I was wondering why would Scholastic editors change this.
>  Does "lugless" mean simply "earless" or is it something more? Thanks!


Lug is British slang for ear.  See here: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/l.htm

By the way, for those who actually is in the UK, what would you call a
[mechanical] lug, then?  Or do you not use a different term for that
bicycle part?

~Ali