Snout-fair perchers, be awhaped at the wlonk discovery!
September 15, 2017 1:59 AM Subscribe
Not for sillytonians, this: words long forgotten to prompt merry-go-sorry. I do not betrump or coney-catch. These words have been hugger-muggered too long by nickums and losengers. Do not listen to momists, especially those rouzy-bouzy ruffs inclined to fumish. Up, slug-a-bed! Don't swerk - there is no ear-rent here to trembable you.
Crofsh! I'll blardrench your plattenquinge if you so much as frewdrew my tellylemp.
Consider yourself jayckled!
Oh, this isn't the room for gibberish? The sign on the door said...
Never mind. I'll see myself out.
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 2:29 AM on September 15, 2017 [2 favorites]
Consider yourself jayckled!
Oh, this isn't the room for gibberish? The sign on the door said...
Never mind. I'll see myself out.
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 2:29 AM on September 15, 2017 [2 favorites]
Some of these words are forgottener than others: slug-a-bed is familiar enough (at least to me), as is hugger-mugger. There have been sightings of the former in the wild here at MeFi, for example.
posted by misteraitch at 2:43 AM on September 15, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by misteraitch at 2:43 AM on September 15, 2017 [7 favorites]
I suppose swerking is a suitable new dance trend for 2017.
posted by NMcCoy at 2:53 AM on September 15, 2017
posted by NMcCoy at 2:53 AM on September 15, 2017
Are we sure this isn't grunge speak 2.0.
posted by Pyry at 3:17 AM on September 15, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Pyry at 3:17 AM on September 15, 2017 [4 favorites]
I am totally bumfuzzled by this post.
When I was in high school I submitted an essay to my English teacher and he put a red line through the word 'fustian'. I complained because I thought it was quite clever and he opened up his fucking pocket dictionary. It wasn't in there.
Fucking pocket dictionary.
fustian noun
Pretentious, pompous speech or writing
If it were up to me he would have lost his job and been promoted to village dunce. Yes it was 30 years ago but I'm still angry.
posted by adept256 at 4:17 AM on September 15, 2017 [15 favorites]
When I was in high school I submitted an essay to my English teacher and he put a red line through the word 'fustian'. I complained because I thought it was quite clever and he opened up his fucking pocket dictionary. It wasn't in there.
Fucking pocket dictionary.
fustian noun
Pretentious, pompous speech or writing
If it were up to me he would have lost his job and been promoted to village dunce. Yes it was 30 years ago but I'm still angry.
posted by adept256 at 4:17 AM on September 15, 2017 [15 favorites]
I get the feeling the language experts at the University of York mainly wanted to get "betrumped" out there.
posted by ejs at 4:55 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by ejs at 4:55 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Have you ever felt betrumped, merry-go-sorry, or like a right sillytonian? Or maybe you fancy yourself as a bit of a percher.Call me a pedant, but everyone I know who uses "right" in the sense of "real" would not use "like". In other words, it would be "or a right sillytonian".
Further, from the meaning of "percher" I doubt it's something someone would fancy of themselves. More like what others would be calling one behind one's back.
posted by oheso at 5:04 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
cf. oheso 2.0, in a random encounter in Cambridge, England.
Local: You look a right plonker!
oheso 2.0: No, you look a right plonker! WTF is a plonker?!?!
posted by oheso at 5:08 AM on September 15, 2017
Local: You look a right plonker!
oheso 2.0: No, you look a right plonker! WTF is a plonker?!?!
posted by oheso at 5:08 AM on September 15, 2017
Before coming into the thread I assumed it was about Stanley Unwin (SLYT), mainstay of 1970s and 1980s British television.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 5:17 AM on September 15, 2017
posted by GallonOfAlan at 5:17 AM on September 15, 2017
The foofaraw of this hullabaloo is egregious.
(My favorite use of an obsolete meaning is crank, meaning fan or fanatic. It was commonly used in the 19th century for baseball afficianados. See also this google book reference.)
posted by blob at 5:19 AM on September 15, 2017
(My favorite use of an obsolete meaning is crank, meaning fan or fanatic. It was commonly used in the 19th century for baseball afficianados. See also this google book reference.)
posted by blob at 5:19 AM on September 15, 2017
"I complained because I thought it was quite clever and he opened up his fucking pocket dictionary. It wasn't in there. Fucking pocket dictionary."
I had a philosophy TA in college fail me on a paper because he claimed I didn't "actually know" two of the words I used (ontogeny and phylogeny) but I just "looked them up" [I didn't] and he wasn't going to pass me for "pretending to be clever" by "using the dictionary." Which, looking up words is what a dictionary is for, but also clearly the problem was that he had to look them up.
(I appealed the grade to the prof who gave me a B, transferred me out of his section, and didn't hire him the next semester because, uh, insecure manchild failing undergrads is not a good look. He also threw some stuff at a kid who asked too many questions in his discussion section. I gather the problems were myriad.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:21 AM on September 15, 2017 [8 favorites]
I had a philosophy TA in college fail me on a paper because he claimed I didn't "actually know" two of the words I used (ontogeny and phylogeny) but I just "looked them up" [I didn't] and he wasn't going to pass me for "pretending to be clever" by "using the dictionary." Which, looking up words is what a dictionary is for, but also clearly the problem was that he had to look them up.
(I appealed the grade to the prof who gave me a B, transferred me out of his section, and didn't hire him the next semester because, uh, insecure manchild failing undergrads is not a good look. He also threw some stuff at a kid who asked too many questions in his discussion section. I gather the problems were myriad.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:21 AM on September 15, 2017 [8 favorites]
So this whole thing is essentially a sub-tweet at 2017.
posted by LMGM at 5:25 AM on September 15, 2017
posted by LMGM at 5:25 AM on September 15, 2017
I need someone to use ear-rent in a sentence because I am definitely going to make ear-rent happen, just as soon as I know the proper usage.
(Also is slug-a-bed really that out of fashion?)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:26 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
(Also is slug-a-bed really that out of fashion?)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:26 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
> He was yakking and yakking but he wasn't paying enough ear-rent for me to listen, the plonker.
> I'm owed ear-rent after the latest twitter tirade from the betrumper in chief.
posted by giraffeneckbattle at 5:39 AM on September 15, 2017 [2 favorites]
> I'm owed ear-rent after the latest twitter tirade from the betrumper in chief.
posted by giraffeneckbattle at 5:39 AM on September 15, 2017 [2 favorites]
Momists gonna mome.
posted by flabdablet at 6:27 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by flabdablet at 6:27 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Sillytonia 09/14/2017 (copyright GWDP date the same)
Swerk, I sought in twerk
A merry-go-sorry
To my fustian and ruff,
Go all a rouzy-douzy
In counterpoint to the absence of my dowsabel.
Am I momist, canting hard
Calling self slug-a-bed, losenger,
For my diversions?
I have not sinned
Yet felt as a coney-catch nickum,
Hugger-mugger slinking
In the soft credence of the ultra-light,
A hedgehog pargeted
Peacockizing percher,
My silk ties man millinery,
Razzle-dazzle
To betrump a tepid soul.
Pretending proclaim,
I am snout-fair,
Fumish and wlonk!-
Nah, day shall catch me
Pale and double chinned.
This hoochie-koochie harbor
A quacksalver,
Stomaching green cash for ear-rent;
The service gleeful in their ambodexter.
Awoke and awhape,
To straight-ended to ruff about,
I hugge in the singularity
Orbiting the vex of my deficiency.
A rouker and a rummie
Don’t wasteheart, darling,
A nimbling prattle of angst
That don’t serve tremblable, but only to teen,
Chuff from a neverwas that wishes to have has-been.
posted by LeRoienJaune at 6:32 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Swerk, I sought in twerk
A merry-go-sorry
To my fustian and ruff,
Go all a rouzy-douzy
In counterpoint to the absence of my dowsabel.
Am I momist, canting hard
Calling self slug-a-bed, losenger,
For my diversions?
I have not sinned
Yet felt as a coney-catch nickum,
Hugger-mugger slinking
In the soft credence of the ultra-light,
A hedgehog pargeted
Peacockizing percher,
My silk ties man millinery,
Razzle-dazzle
To betrump a tepid soul.
Pretending proclaim,
I am snout-fair,
Fumish and wlonk!-
Nah, day shall catch me
Pale and double chinned.
This hoochie-koochie harbor
A quacksalver,
Stomaching green cash for ear-rent;
The service gleeful in their ambodexter.
Awoke and awhape,
To straight-ended to ruff about,
I hugge in the singularity
Orbiting the vex of my deficiency.
A rouker and a rummie
Don’t wasteheart, darling,
A nimbling prattle of angst
That don’t serve tremblable, but only to teen,
Chuff from a neverwas that wishes to have has-been.
posted by LeRoienJaune at 6:32 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
"Teen - To vex, irritate, annoy, anger, enrage, to inflict suffering upon"
Sounds about right.
posted by MythMaker at 6:51 AM on September 15, 2017 [3 favorites]
Sounds about right.
posted by MythMaker at 6:51 AM on September 15, 2017 [3 favorites]
Man-millinery Precedes mansplaining and manspreading, it seems.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:57 AM on September 15, 2017
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:57 AM on September 15, 2017
I also weep for the loss of the evocative hyphen. Imagine what Meta-Filter could get up to!
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:58 AM on September 15, 2017
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:58 AM on September 15, 2017
Ha! This is great. Dom was one of my PhD advisors at the University of York. I didn't know about this project (I graduated and left academia, somewhat wasteheartedly I'll admit), but I'm sure I know at least some of the other linguists on it. Fun stuff.
Betrump. Lol. I support this usage. Could be the beginning of a good protest sign.
posted by iamkimiam at 7:17 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
Betrump. Lol. I support this usage. Could be the beginning of a good protest sign.
posted by iamkimiam at 7:17 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
I franched something juglandaceous, thinking it lingible, but it was slibbersauce, which now walms like the contents of a roddikin.
Previouslyish.
posted by univac at 8:09 AM on September 15, 2017
Previouslyish.
posted by univac at 8:09 AM on September 15, 2017
I know hugger-mugger but mainly because of the board game.
posted by vacapinta at 8:18 AM on September 15, 2017
posted by vacapinta at 8:18 AM on September 15, 2017
A delightfuly cromulent post.
posted by quinndexter at 8:45 AM on September 15, 2017
posted by quinndexter at 8:45 AM on September 15, 2017
Nice list. I hope everyone involved will accept my sincerest contrafibularities.
posted by Paul Slade at 9:00 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Paul Slade at 9:00 AM on September 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
I saw this earlier and had the same thought: slug-a-bed is and has been continuously used in my family. I assumed it was in common parlance throughout the English-speaking world.
posted by freecellwizard at 9:29 AM on September 15, 2017
posted by freecellwizard at 9:29 AM on September 15, 2017
ear-rent:
and he that loft the day pay
Ear-rent for us both
The works of Mr. John Cleveland
Huh.
posted by kristi at 11:12 AM on September 15, 2017
Rascals,The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson
Would run themselves from breath, to see me ride,
Or you t' have but a hole to thrust your heads in,
For which you should pay ear-rent? No, agree.
and he that loft the day pay
Ear-rent for us both
The works of Mr. John Cleveland
Now, you do not roar, sir ;
You speak not tempests, nor take ear-rent from
A poor shop-keeper. Do you remember that, sir ?
I wear your marks here still.
Huh.
posted by kristi at 11:12 AM on September 15, 2017
Eyebrows McGee: "(Also is slug-a-bed really that out of fashion?)"
I say slug-a-bug, perhaps that's a regionalism.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:02 PM on September 25, 2017
I say slug-a-bug, perhaps that's a regionalism.
posted by Chrysostom at 10:02 PM on September 25, 2017
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