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There are very few words which can be spelled in so. Spelling of. Aaaaarrgghh (there's another one.) varies most commonly in the number of 'A's. R's. Repetition of 'G's and 'H's is.
If you are wondering what Aaaaaarrrrgh and variants. TV/cinema. Notable and. Aaaaaarrrgghhh noise.
Wilhelm Scream. Incidentally (apparently) the term Wilhelm. Scream was coined by Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt, so- called because it. Private Wilhelm in a 1. The Charge at Yellow. River. The sound effect was (again apparently) originally titled 'man being. Please note that this screen version did not directly.
Aaaarrrgh as an expression of. The frustration signified by. Aaargh can be meant in pure fun or in some situations (in blogs for example). The powerful nature of the expression is such. The main usage however seems to be as a quick.
I could scream'. To some people. Aaaaargh suggests the ironic idea of throwing oneself out of a towerblock. AAAAAARRRRGH (capitals. Aaargh response. That said, broadly.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh clearly has a touch more desperation than. Aaarrgh. The use of Aaaaargh is definitely increasing in the 2. Mail Order Brides From Russia on this page.
Often the meaning includes an. Homer Simpson's 'doh', or an incredulous aspect like Victor. Meldrew's 'I don't believe it', and perhaps in time different spellings will. Interestingly the web makes. Aargh, and at some stage the web will make it possible to correlate spelling. For now, googling the different spellings will show. I suspect that given the speed of the phone text medium, usage.
See Oliver. Steele's fascinating Aargh webpage, (he gives also Hmmm the same treatment.). Google counts as at 2. At the time of. originally writing this entry (April 2.
Google's count for Argh has now. At Dec 2. 01. 2 Google's count for. Argh had doubled (from the 2. Here are a few interesting. If. so for what situations and purpose? Let me know. See the liar liar entry for. English. c. 1. 93.
German, French, Italian and. Spanish - does anyone know which came first? Is there a long- forgotten/lost rhyming slang.
Any other suggestions? Are you aware of. Shakespeare? A 1. Katherine Hepburn movie? Let me know. Let me know also if you want any mysterious.
Gold does not dissolve in nitric acid, whereas less costly. The use of nitric acid also featured strongly in. This would naturally have extended as a metaphor to the notion.
Brewer) of a conjuror preparing a trick with hands above the. An 'across the board' bet was one. Wentworth. and Flexnor's Dictionary of American Slang suggests, across the board meant a. I can neither agree nor disagree with this, nor find.
I add it here for what it is worth if you. Out of interest, an 'off ox' would have been the beast pulling the. This extension to the expression was American (Worldwidewords. American Regional English as the source of a. USA regional variations); the 'off ox' and other extensions such.
Adam's brother or Adam's foot, are simply designed to exaggerate the. Alligators were apparently originally called El Lagarto de Indias. The Lizard of the Indies), 'el lagarto', logically meaning 'the lizard'. It seems (ack S Burgos) that the modern Spanish word (and notably in. Castellano) for lizard is lagartija, and lagarto now means alligator. Cohen suggests the origin dates. New York City fraudster Aleck Hoag, who, with his wife posing as.
Hoag bribed the police to escape. In describing. Hoag at the time, the police were supposedly the first to use the 'smart aleck'. The Old French word is derived from Latin 'amare'. It is a corrupted (confused) derivation of the term. And per se', which was the original formal name of the & symbol in. Traditionally all letters were. The letter A would have been 'A per se', B.
B per se', just as the '& ' symbol was 'And per se'. The earliest representations of the ampersand symbol are found. Roman scriptures dating back nearly 2,0. If you inspect various. ET or Et letters. Brewer's 1. 87. 0 dictionary.
Phrase and Fable describes the 'apple of the eye' expression (or apple of. The theory goes that in ancient times. Logically the pupil or apple of a.
Strangely Brewer references Deuteronomy. Erber came from 'herber' meaning a garden. Old French and in turn. Latin, herba, meaning herb or grass. Interestingly the switch to.
English: farm used to be 'ferme'. Derby, pronounced (in England) as 'darby', and. Apparently the modern 'arbor/arbour' tree- related meaning developed. Latin 'arbor', meaning tree - originally. Latin. word for a place where trees are cultivated for special purposes, particularly. The word history is given by Cassells to be 1.
Sanskrit avatata meaning descent, from the parts ava meaning down or away. In more recent times the word has. The virtual reality community website Secondlife was among the. The idea of losing a baby when. Wolfgang. Mieder's article '(Don't) throw the baby out with the bathwater' (full title. The Americanization of a German Proverb and Proverbial.
Expression', which appears in De Proverbio - Issue 1: 1. German Thomas Murner's 1. Narrenbeschw. Murner, who was born in 1. Germany at that time.
Later the use. of bandbox was extended to equate to a hatbox, so the meaning of the phrase. In more recent times, as tends to be with the. These US slang. meanings are based on allusion to the small and not especially robust confines. I am additionally informed (thanks V Smith) that bandbox. Ebbets Field in New. York, one- time home of Brooklyn Dodgers, was an example. The bandbox expression.
Quite separately I am informed (thanks I Sandon) that 'bandboxing' is a specific term in the air traffic control industry: . You may have noticed that for a particular 'SID' ('standard instrument departure' - the basic take- off procedure) you are almost always given the same frequency after departure. By 'bandboxing' two adjacent sectors (working them from a single position rather than two) you can work aircraft in the larger airspace at one time (saving staff and also simplifying any co- ordination that may have taken place when they are 'split'). To facilitate this the two frequencies are 'cross- coupled'. This means that the controller transmits on both frequencies simultaniously and when an aircraft calls on one, the transmission is retransmitted on the second frequency. Therefore the pilots are much less likely to step on one another and it appears as if all aircraft are on the same frequency. Then when traffic loading requires the sectors to be split once more, a second controller simply takes one of the frequencies from the other, the frequencies are un- cross- coupled, and all being well there is a seamless transition from the pilots' perspective!.
I am therefore at odds with. The 'bring. home the bacon' expression essentially stems from the fact that bacon was the.
Peasants and poor town- dwelling folk in olden times regarded other. Other reasons for the significance of the word bacon as.
Additionally the. Expressions which are poetic and pleasing. Bring home the vegetables' doesn't have quite the. According to Allen's English Phrases there could possibly have been. German for back. Whatever, the.
For example (according to. Grose, Brewer, and Partridge/Dictionary of the Canting Crew) in the 1. Given so much association. In other words, why would people have fixed onto the bacon metaphor.
This meaning is very close. The precise source of the 'Dunmow Flitch' tale, and.
Ebeneezer Cobham Brewer's 1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, revised and enlarged in 1. Brewer, which are quite different to the original. Regrettably Cobham Brewer does not refer. Brewer says one origin is the.
In that sense the meaning was to save or. The establishment of the expression however relies on wider. Bacon and pig- related terms were metaphors. In the mid- to- late middle ages, bacon was for common. Norman lords called Saxon.
A 'chaw- bacon' was a derogatory term for a farm labourer or. See also 'bring home the bacon'. It's simply a. shortening of 'The bad thing that happened was my fault, sorry'. The word bad. in this case has evolved to mean 'mistake which caused a problem'. It's another. example of the tendency for language to become abbreviated for more efficient.
In this case the abbreviation is also a sort of. For new meanings of words to evolve there needs to be a. Initially the 'my bad'. US students, and the. Now it seems the understanding.
US middle management. I am also informed (thanks K Korkodilos) that the. TV series 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', and. Additionally (thanks M Woolley) apparently. Fred character in the new (2. Scooby. Doo TV series, which is leading to the adoption of the phrase among the.
London, and logically, presumbly, older children all over England. There is it seems no stopping this one. Also, (thanks J Davis).
Furthemore, (thanks J Susky, Sep 2. If you know more please. A. still earlier meaning of the word was more precisely 'a jumbled mixture of. Scandinavia 'a mixture'. Skeat's 1. 88. 2 dictionary. Scandinavian meanings were for.
In. Danish 'balder' was noise or clatter, and the word danske was slap or flap. Certain dictionaries suggest an initial origin of a frothy drink from. English 1. 6th. C, but this usage was derived from the earlier 'poor drink' and.
Balti is generally now. Urdu. language. The mythological explanation is that the balti pan and dish are.
Baltistan' region of Pakistan, or a. England- based curry house folk, who.