Guttling from guttle. To eat noisily or quickly. Found in a Morse book.
Anybody come across it or know where in Britain it is used? Morse obviously being set in Oxford.

And another. Hebdomadal=weekly.
I’m working my way through the Morse collection and I’ve never had bother before.

Always wondered what it meant from the folk song, "poverty poverty knock"

'Poverty poverty knock, ' my loom is a saying all day
Poverty poverty knock, gaffer's too skinny to pay
Poverty poverty knock, keeping one eye on the clock
I know I can guttle when I hear my shuttle go, 'poverty poverty knock'

Sounds like a corruption/derivative of guzzle/guzzling which of course is a very common word with the same connotations relating to eating.

But don't ask me where guzzling comes from...

ElectroClaret wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 11, 2023 11:45 pm

Sounds like a corruption/derivative of guzzle/guzzling which of course is a very common word with the same connotations relating to eating.

But don't ask me where guzzling comes from...

The actual sentence included, “guzzling coke, guttling sandwiches”.

From around those parts i'd say..............between Burnley & Skipton, put those points on a map & draw a Circle. My old man would always mess with words like that.

eleemosynary .... of, relating to or supported by charity

Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 11, 2023 11:05 pm

And another. Hebdomadal=weekly.
I’m working my way through the Morse collection and I’ve never had bother before.

Never heard of “guttle” before, but “hebdomadal” is an anglicised version of the French, “hebdomodaire” (sp?). Perhaps best known in this country from the weekly satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo”

(I’m pretty sure there should be some accents over the first “e”, but I don’t know how to do them)

I'll share one of my favourites

Botuliform = sausage shaped

I spent a lot of time in France and I heard them use the word “hebdominal”, meaning weekly, many times.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of guess what?........long words.

'Gamahuche' is an interesting one...

I don't use it nearly as often as I should

not a new word (used to crop up on a word game on TV a while ago) "Floccinaucinihilipilification" ...

"floccinaucinihilipilification" is the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless. Often times, it is used in a humorous way.

aibohphobia

The fear of palindromes

Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of having an empty beer glass.

A chap I worked with many years ago gave me a piece of advice with regard to writing adversarial letters which I strove to follow throughout my career: "Always try to include a word which the recipient needs to look up in a dictionary; but just the one... Any more and you're just being a smartarse."

Claret Toni wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 12, 2023 1:57 pm

aibohphobia

The fear of palindromes

Non!

Phrontistery.

A thinking place. A quiet place to contemplate. Mine used to be in the bath. I made several big decisions while relaxing, thinking and wallowing in the comfort of a warm bath. Then the sad day came when I found I could no longer heave myself out of it and subsequently discovered the shower cubicle was no substitute. Our garden shed is now my phrontistery – but only during the summer months.

toooldtobegrumpy wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 12, 2023 5:18 pm

Phrontistery.

A thinking place. A quiet place to contemplate. Mine used to be in the bath. I made several big decisions while relaxing, thinking and wallowing in the comfort of a warm bath. Then the sad day came when I found I could no longer heave myself out of it and subsequently discovered the shower cubicle was no substitute. Our garden shed is now my phrontistery – but only during the summer months.

Did you leap out of the bath shouting "Eureka"

toooldtobegrumpy wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 12, 2023 5:18 pm

Phrontistery.

A thinking place. A quiet place to contemplate. Mine used to be in the bath...

My Mrs' spot of choice too... I just fall asleep in the bath when I try contemplating there. so instead go for sedate motorbike rides.

Mondegreen -
a misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of a song.

MrTopTier wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:25 pm

Mondegreen -
a misunderstood or misinterpreted word or phrase resulting from a mishearing of the lyrics of a song.

Brown Girl In The RAIN. Had the guys on tour ripping me.

The etymology of mondegreen is quite interesting. Writer Sylvia Wright used to listen to a Scottish ballad told to her by her mother called "The Bonny Earl O'Morey". There was a line " They hae slayed the Earl O'Morey and laid him on the geen", which she heard as "They hae slayed the Earl O'Morey and Lady Mondegreen."
She later wrote in an American magazine "..the point about whichI shall hereafter call them mondegreens since no one else has thought up a word for them".