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Thanks, ChrisE - it was probably used nationally. I haven't heard the phrase, the correction, for years

i think it was usually my grandmother who said it, so i haven't heard it for about 50 years...

Mathprofrockstar - scarf? That word, in that sense, is new to me. I don't think I like it much, on first glance it conjures up 'barf'!

Malone, my vet refers to when the cats eat too fast and throw up as “scarf and barf.”

Chambers has the etymology as unknown, but perhaps a variant of “scoff.”

MPRS, thanks for the updates. . 'Scarf and barf' paints too vivid a picture - and not an elegant one!

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/04/cats-mother.html

malone: The first time I read The High Window that line made me roar. He really was hilarious.

mathprof: I used to think it was scoff here too, but I’m a New Englander and always heard it with a dropped R. I’ve heard many other folks from RI and MA say that when they were children they thought fart was spelled fot; it certainly wasn’t on school spelling lists.

Chris, I take your point about the @name threads. Perhaps the answer might be to do as you suggest about posting an @name thread saying "See Coffee and Chat" BUT also say, "Please acknowledge this post". Once the @name thread has been acknowledged by the User you are talking to, I could then delete it. I think that would work nicely.

Chrise, Jono, Malone, tyke @2-@5

Amazingly 'wicked' came up again in today's Times:

Admitters of wicked things, namely at one time originally sinful (7)

S-O-C-S (to save you too much trouble)

Just for good measure 'wicked' appeared in another clue (see Times 28060 thread), but only for 'bad'.