Difference between revisions of "Teary turty Taubling"
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* '''tauftauf''' → an echo of [[tauftauf]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.10]]), from ''German'' '''taufen''': to baptise | * '''tauftauf''' → an echo of [[tauftauf]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.10]]), from ''German'' '''taufen''': to baptise | ||
| + | *'''tauba:''' (German) dove - could be a turtle dove | ||
[[Category: Tauftauf]] | [[Category: Tauftauf]] | ||
[[Category:excrement]] | [[Category:excrement]] | ||
[[Category: Dublin]] | [[Category: Dublin]] | ||
| + | [[Category:birds]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:46, 12 November 2023
- Dear Dirty Dublin: Lady Sidney Morgan’s phrase
- teary: tearful, pathetic
- thirty
- turd: a lump of dung; a piece of shit
- Turteltaube: (German) turtledove → Issy → FW 005.17: hurtleturtled
- Täublein: (German) little dove → Issy
- taub: (German) deaf → in FW Swift is often described as being deaf-and-dumb → see tum in the previous line
- tub → A Tale of a Tub → a teel of a tum and Try Our Taal on a Taub
