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“New York Governor David Patterson, however, immediately saw through the ishkabibble and wasted no time pouncing on Palin's”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ishkabibble’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
nincompoop, pettyfoggery, gaberlunzie, cattywampus, weisenheimer, katzenjammer, hecklephone, loblolly, carriwitchet, flibbertyjibbet, hornswoggle, thimblerigger and 161 more...
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Miscellaneous
‽, ☤, mandelbrot, angora rabbit, psychrolutes marc..., vampyroteuthis in..., basking shark, mano de desierto, underwater sculpt..., surgical dining, gyroscope, Derinkuyu and 161 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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whatever1013's Words
chocolate, sesquipedalophobia, discombobulated, callipygian, retronym, squirm, cobalt blue, plethora, onomatopoeia, blowhard, strumpet, shush and 173 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Favorite Words of AWP13
We asked attendees who visited the Wordnik booth what their favorite words were, and these are what they told us. (AWP is an annual conference for writers and those in the writing world.)
cling, declivity, susurrus, caramel, cataract, please, fester, reverie, kerplunk!, defenestration, colonel, ocean and 174 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Hodges English 10 Vocab
All the vocab will get in class over the year.
aberration, acrimony, adduce, anthropomorphous, caitiff, chagrin, clement, connote, deluge, deride, dissemble, edify and 213 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ishkabibble.
pennywhistler Putting it all together, bandleader Kay Kyser (known as "the Ol' Professor of Swing") presided over the radio show "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge" from 1938-49. He featured members of his band, among them the comedic cornetist Merwyn Bogue (aka Ish Kabibble). If MB is known for anything, it is for the novelty song "Three Little Fishies".
Various disreputable urban dictionaries say that prior to Mr. Bogue's appropriation of the moniker it was used as a slang word meaning "No worries," or "Who cares?" "So you have no money? Well, ishkabibble". And that nowadays the word "ishkabibble" means irrelevent nonsense. "That's all Ishkabibble."
In his autobiography, Merwyn Bogue said that he took his stage name from a song he used to sing on the radio show, "Isch Gabibble (I Should Worry)", words by Sam M Lewis, music by George W Meyer, dated 1913. Bogue said he changed the spelling to make it easier to say. And in 1914 Harry Hershfield began his cartoon strip "Abie the Agent", which featured the car salesman Abie Kabibble. Beyond that there is no Jewish or Yiddish connection, according to "World Wide Words". And I believe him. At that time there was a vogue for "Dutch" (meaning Deutsch) comedians, who malapropped their way through the English language for (allegedly) humorous effect. Feb 7, 2010
sionnach Merwyn Bogue (Ish Kabibble) comic singer (Three Little Fishies) Jul 24, 2009
PossibleUnderscore *waves hand carelessly* "Ishkabibble!" Jul 24, 2009
treeseed A mock-Yiddish expression, "Ische ga bibble?", which was purported to mean "I should worry?" but actually is not Yiddish and contains no Yiddish words.
_Wikipedia Feb 18, 2008
anydelirium My grandfather called his grandchildren this all the time- I never thought I'd find it here! Feb 18, 2008