Difference between revisions of "Teary turty Taubling"
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Revision as of 07:59, 2 July 2012
- 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
