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Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
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Gems from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulg...
Citation: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, unabridged from the original 1811 edition, with a foreword by Max Harris. London: Bibliophile Books, 1984.
Original title page: A Dictio...tuzzy-muzzy, half seas over, hugger mugger, hugotontheonbiqui..., doodle sack, juniper lecture, kate, kent street eject..., jack ketch, davy, abel-wackets, three-legged mare and 370 more...
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splish-splash, hip-hop, kit-kat, dingaling, hugger-mugger, even-steven, tit for tat, higgledy-piggledy, dilly-dally, boogie-woogie, knick-knack, mai tai and 131 more...
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Hocus-pocus, I see a crocus!
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willy-nilly, higgledy-piggledy, harum-scarum, argy-bargy, boogie woogie, hanky panky, itsy-bitsy, helter-skelter, lovey-dovey, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy and 95 more...
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via Poplollies & Bellibones
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reesetee Hmm. I suppose I can see it now....
*looks away* Sep 5, 2008
chained_bear I'm guessing, based on the other stuff in the book, that certain people... I don't want to call them vulgar... took an existing term and gave it a more subversive... I don't want to say vulgar... meaning. I mean, that's usually the case in the book. Occasionally there are original words or phrases but a lot of times they're just adaptations of existing words.
OED does not list tussy-mussy, but it does list tussy: "A cluster, posy, or knot of flowers or leaves; an ornament of silver or gold of this form, forming a buckle or the like."
OED, interestingly, lists tuzzy-muzzy as the main spelling and tussie-mussie as a modern variant: "A bunch or posy of flowers, a nosegay; a garland of flowers. Also fig. Revived in 20th cent., usu. in form tussie-mussie."
Additional meanings:
"As popular name of particular plants or flowers (see quots.); also, a bur."
"Dishevelled, ragged; fuzzy. dial."
And the third meaning (I post them here out of order): "See quots. slang. Obs.
1711 E. WARD Quix. I. 70 And Salt as Lot's Wife's Tuzzy~muzzy. 1721 BAILEY, Tuzzimuzzy,..a jocular Name for the Pudendum Muliebre. Hence in HALLIWELL, and in later Dicts."
It offers 9 usage examples of the first definition (beginning in 1440!) before the date of the 1st usage of it as a vulgar term in 1711. Sep 5, 2008
reesetee Haha! How did it take on such a vastly different meaning from tussie-mussie, I wonder? Sep 5, 2008
chained_bear Tuzzy-muzzy has quite a different meaning in the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811): "the monosyllable." When you look under monosyllable, it's defined as "a woman's commodity." Sep 5, 2008
sionnach 1. a small bunch of flowers or herbs.
2. a cone-shaped holder for a bouquet.
Also called tussie-mussie.
(From dictionary.com) Nov 3, 2007
sonofgroucho Que? Nov 3, 2007