Gallimaufry : a hodgepodge of our vanishing vocabulary
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Gallimaufry : a hodgepodge of our vanishing vocabulary
Oxford University Press, 2006
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内容説明
What is a gallimaufry anyway? And when did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and here Michael Quinion, author of the bestselling POSH and other language myths , has gathered together some fascinating examples of words and meanings which have vanished from our language. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete, sometimes it survives in a figurative sense while the original meaning is lost, and sometimes it simply gives way to a more popular alternative. The story of these and many other words opens a window into the lives of past speakers of the English language.
目次
- FOOD AND DRINK
- Of messes in pots
- Sugar and spice and all things nice
- Skilligalee and boiled babies
- Fruits of grain and grape
- Below-stairs life
- HEALTH AND MEDICINE
- Potions and curatives
- Caudles, cordials, and possets
- The parlance of physicians
- Diseases and conditions
- ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
- Games with cards
- Games with things
- Outdoor games
- Invitation to a dance
- The food of love
- Of thimbleriggers and joculators
- Natural magic
- TRANSPORT AND FASHION
- Your carriage awaits
- Ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things
- Cloth of ages
- Wigs on the green
- Get ahead, get a hat
- NAMES, EMPLOYMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS
- What's in a name
- Obscure occupations
- The long and the short of it
- Can you hear me, mother?
- Going, going ... gone?
- EPILOGUE
- Words that never made it
- INDEX OF FEATURED WORDS
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