![]() Miss Burney (1778) has skimper-scamper "in hurry and confusion. "To which he might have added," Moor writes, crincum-crankum, crinkle-crankle, flim-flam, fiddle-faddle, gibble-gabble, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, hiccup-suickup, hocus-pocus, hotch-potch, hugger-mugger, humdrum, hum-strum, hurry-scurry, jibber-jabber, prittle-prattle, shilly-shally, tittle-tattle, and topsy-turvy. 1600).Įdward Moor, "Suffolk Words and Phrases" (London, 1823), quotes a list of "conceited rhyming words or reduplications" from the 1768 edition of John Ray's "Collection of English Words Not Generally Used," all said to "signify any confusion or mixture " the list has higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, hodge-podge, mingle-mangle, arsy-versy, kim-kam, hub-bub, crawly-mauly, and hab-nab. Reduplications in the h-/ p- pattern are common (as in hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hinch(y)-pinch(y), an obsolete children's game, attested from c. "confusedly, hurriedly," 1590s, a "vocal gesture" probably formed from pig and the animal's suggestions of mess and disorder. Century Dictionary reports that fiddle "in popular use carries with it a suggestion of contempt and ridicule." Fit as a fiddle is from 1610s. įiddle has been relegated to colloquial usage by its more proper cousin, violin, a process encouraged by phraseology such as fiddlesticks (1620s), contemptuous nonsense word fiddle-de-dee (1784), and fiddle-faddle. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. Unless the Medieval Latin word is from the Germanic ones. The usual suggestion, based on resemblance in sound and sense, is that it is from Medieval Latin vitula "stringed instrument" (source of Old French viole, Italian viola), which perhaps is related to Latin vitularia "celebrate joyfully," from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory, who probably, like her name, originated among the Sabines. ![]() The word allatonceness springs up half way through the book with no reference to its meaning. (16) He appears just as I'm about to start on a roasted jewfish with prawns, and offers a sturdy paw."stringed musical instrument, violin," late 14c., fedele, fydyll, fidel, earlier fithele, from Old English fiðele "fiddle," which is related to Old Norse fiðla, Middle Dutch vedele, Dutch vedel, Old High German fidula, German Fiedel "a fiddle " all of uncertain origin. As brilliant as this book is The Medium Is the Massage by Marshall McLuan), the language is somewhat hard to digest. (15) Last Sunday off Evans Head, nearly every boat returning to port had a nice catch of fish - snapper, teraglin, flathead and jewfish. (14) Across the cave, the jewfish is being cleaned by some minute gobies. (13) Apparently, he is usually seen in the summer when a female jewfish shows up to keep him company. Back in Europe, any foreigner with dark hair and olive skin was assumed to be from Egypt and were called 'gypts.' Later the word became 'gypsies. Sheldon starts to say something about the origin of the phrase jibber jabber, and Penny says oh god, you’re. The word itself is probably meant to imitate the sound of senseless jibber-jabber. He goes on some long explanation, something about string theory, and when he finishes Penny says okay, even you have to admit that was jibber jabber. (12) There have also been some good jewfish and tailor taken from the headlands and breakwalls. The word gibberish first appeared in the English language in the mid-1500s, referring to written or spoken words that are unintelligible. (11) The white water that can be stirred up with a little wind often produces the conditions from which we can catch good tailor and jewfish. (9) How can you choose between the ocean trout, jewfish, gemfish, barramundi, blue eye and flathead on the menu? (10) There are also, in separate sections, adult turtles and big fish like jewfish, tarpon, snook and stingrays. (8) Today's photo is a dream of nearly all anglers, to catch two jewfish this size. (7) There are many good jewfish lures on the market. (6) The best report I've heard to date was of good numbers of jewfish coming from the Ballina South Wall in the rough water caused by the wind and rain. ![]() ![]() (5) There have been good reports of tailor from Ballina's north wall and Patches Beach, and at least three large jewfish from the north wall. Jibber The sexual act of sucking a fart out of your partners ass with a straw, holding it in your mouth and proceeding to make out with fart juice being shared. (4) Hunted nearly to extinction, the shy, greenish-grey jewfish made a comeback in these waters when laws to protect them were passed in 1990. ![]() (3) I saw one angler take three big jewfish all on his homemade lures. (2) In the early stages of the dirty water, there were some very nice large jewfish caught off both the north and south walls. (1) The photo today is of a good catch of jewfish from offshore at Evans Head. ![]()
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