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* '''tauf''' → an iteration of the [[tauftauf]] interjection which recurs throughout the book → from ''German'' '''taufen''', to baptise → compare this section with [[Page_3|FW 003.09-10]]: "nor [[avoice from afire]] [[bellowsed]] [[mishe mishe]] to [[tauftauf]] [[thuartpeatrick]]" | * '''tauf''' → an iteration of the [[tauftauf]] interjection which recurs throughout the book → from ''German'' '''taufen''', to baptise → compare this section with [[Page_3|FW 003.09-10]]: "nor [[avoice from afire]] [[bellowsed]] [[mishe mishe]] to [[tauftauf]] [[thuartpeatrick]]" | ||
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* '''piffle:''' piff-poof, poff, piffle, and similar colloquial expressions are used in a derogatory sense to express contempt for nonsense | * '''piffle:''' piff-poof, poff, piffle, and similar colloquial expressions are used in a derogatory sense to express contempt for nonsense | ||
Latest revision as of 09:08, 16 October 2010
- paffen: (German) to smoke; to puff on (a pipe, for example)
- Paff → a variation on the onomatopoeic Tip which recurs throughout the book, meaning variously in different contexts a request for a cash tip as a reward for a tour through the museum (Kathe), an auctorial injunction that we remember the omnipresence of the protagonist HCE (tip → Latin ipse, "himself"), the tap of a branch against the window, the rubbish tip or kitchen midden in the backyard of HCE's tavern, etc.
- tauf → an iteration of the tauftauf interjection which recurs throughout the book → from German taufen, to baptise → compare this section with FW 003.09-10: "nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick"
- piffle: piff-poof, poff, piffle, and similar colloquial expressions are used in a derogatory sense to express contempt for nonsense
