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hazelnut_cafeAwesome semi-extinct English words for people who feel inclined to use things like "Spatherdab!" in everyday speech!
(Bum bum
1) Spatherdab: A chatterer, gossip, scandal-monger; a woman who goes from house to house dispensing news.
2) "Tree-Geese:" A name given to barnacles, from their supposed metamorphosis into geese.
(this theory that geese came from shells provided reasoning for their meat to be eaten during Lent...)
3) Swillking: Drunken. Said of a man who drinks till the liquor can be heard swillking about in his stomach.
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4) Jurr: The noise a small waterfall makes when it falls amongst loose stones and gravel.
5) NOTE: "To speak of a man's 'turning over the gravels' means that he is full of vigor- one who can urinate with such force that the stream of urine scatters pebbles."
... the word "gravel" often has a sexual connotation.
6) Mallemarocking: the visiting and carousing of seamen in the Greenland ships.
Formed on dutch "mallemarok," a foolish woman, tomboy; from "mal-" foolish, and "marok," adaptation of French "marotte" [an] object of foolish attention.
Sources:
*All of this was from my Forgotten English Calendar by Jeffrey Kacirk.
1) -A. Benoni Evans's Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs 1881
2) -Robert Nare's Glossary of the Works fo English Authors, 1859
3) - Francis Taylor's Folk-Speech of South Lancashire, 1901.
4) -John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
5) -Bance Randolph's Down in the Holler: a Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech, 1953.
6) -Adm. William Smyth's Sailor's Word Book, 1867
-Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
)
(Bum bum
1) Spatherdab: A chatterer, gossip, scandal-monger; a woman who goes from house to house dispensing news.
2) "Tree-Geese:" A name given to barnacles, from their supposed metamorphosis into geese.
(this theory that geese came from shells provided reasoning for their meat to be eaten during Lent...)
3) Swillking: Drunken. Said of a man who drinks till the liquor can be heard swillking about in his stomach.
.
4) Jurr: The noise a small waterfall makes when it falls amongst loose stones and gravel.
5) NOTE: "To speak of a man's 'turning over the gravels' means that he is full of vigor- one who can urinate with such force that the stream of urine scatters pebbles."
... the word "gravel" often has a sexual connotation.
6) Mallemarocking: the visiting and carousing of seamen in the Greenland ships.
Formed on dutch "mallemarok," a foolish woman, tomboy; from "mal-" foolish, and "marok," adaptation of French "marotte" [an] object of foolish attention.
Sources:
*All of this was from my Forgotten English Calendar by Jeffrey Kacirk.
1) -A. Benoni Evans's Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs 1881
2) -Robert Nare's Glossary of the Works fo English Authors, 1859
3) - Francis Taylor's Folk-Speech of South Lancashire, 1901.
4) -John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
5) -Bance Randolph's Down in the Holler: a Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech, 1953.
6) -Adm. William Smyth's Sailor's Word Book, 1867
-Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
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