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And sure enough there was somethin 'a floucin' and sloshin ', and makin' a devil of a conbobberation at the eend of the line.
reesetee commented on the word conbobberation
Archaic, used jokingly to mean a row or disturbance.
August 9, 2007
slumry commented on the word conbobberation
I like it!
August 9, 2007
Gammerstang commented on the word conbobberation
(noun) - (1) Conbobberation, helliferocious, mollagausauger, to puckerstopple, and peedoddles were actually in use, and seem unbelievably outlandish today only because of their unfamiliarity . . . The "tall talk" of the backwoods, moving ever westward with the frontier, left unmistakable traces in the writings of Mark Twain, John Hay, Bret Hart, and a good many smaller fry.
--Thomas Pyles' Words and Ways of American English, (1952)
(2) Conbobberation, a disturbance.
--My Forgotten English calendar doesn't give a source for this. O_o
(3) Sockdologer, said to be a corruption of doxology, and to have thence derived the meaning of a final argument or a conclusive evidence which closes a debate as decisively as the singing of a doxology ends religious service.
--M. Schele de Vere's Americanisms, 1872
January 14, 2018