James and Snape. Was. Re: Snape and Harry again.

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 113824

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "feklar" <feklar at v...> wrote:
> > Valky:
> > In British english the word Lapdog also applies to a person and 
with quite different meaning.
> > Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary:
> > Definition
> > lapdog (PERSON)
> > noun [C] DISAPPROVING
> > someone who is willing to do anything that a more important 
person tells them to do:
> 
> feklar:
> 
> no, that's the standard American figurative understanding 
of "lapdog" as well.  Same for "snivel" and "snivelling," tho' I 
think the term might be considered a bit archaic here.
> 

Valky,
Thankyou Feklar, I find the word archaic a bit amusing, though. I am 
only 30 and "Lapdog" has been in common use, this way, in my 
lifetime. I realise that the millenium turning has ushered in a lot 
of changes, but where I come from Lapdog isn't really that old, 
AFAIK. 

The interesting thing is that Sirius fits the profile of someone who 
*is* using the word entirely figuratively, hailing from the right 
generation for this *archaic* term LOL, as far as I know anyway, and 
having some tendency to apply dissapproving adjectives to Snape.