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| − | * '''wifey, wifie:''' wife → '''addle liddle phifie''' = ''had a little wifey'' | + | * '''wifey, wifie:''' pet names for one's wife → '''addle liddle phifie''' = ''had a little wifey'' |
| − | * '''addle liddle phifie:''' [[ALP]], recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle | + | * '''addle liddle phifie:''' [[ALP]], a recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle |
* '''Fifi:''' petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine? | * '''Fifi:''' petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine? | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160236 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
* '''fife:''' a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster | * '''fife:''' a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster | ||
Revision as of 11:41, 18 November 2006
- wifey, wifie: pet names for one's wife → addle liddle phifie = had a little wifey
- addle liddle phifie: ALP, a recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle
- Fifi: petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine?
- fife: a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster
- phi: the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, commonly used to denote the phase of a wave in physics; the diameter of a circle in geometry
- fie: an expression of distaste or disapproval
