Posted on 11/03/2015 4:06:07 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday November 3, 2015
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
ferhoodle [fer-hood-l]
-vt
Chiefly Pennsylvania German to confuse or mix up
[ Pennsylvania German verhuddle to tangle, confuse; compare German verhudeln to bungle, botch]
Ferhoodle must be one of those words that became verboten during WWII. I watch a lot of British drams on PBS set in WWII (I feel like I’ve experienced the London blitz first hand) and even the music of Bach was frowned upon in England during that period (that German music, it was called). Of course I still had to struggle through it here.
In fact, where I live now (Wisconsin) school was still taught 1/2 a day in German until WWII. I have farmer neighbors who still speak with German accents even though their forebears immigrated here in 1832. I knew one lady who (after she was moved to a retirement home in her 90s) was encouraged by her daughter in law to get to know some of the ladies living their who came from a neighboring village because they also spoke German. “No, she sniffed. They sspeak low German, and I speak high German.)
Do you remember the old song about John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? It has a line about being xxx, and xxx, and a little bit of Dutch. I was a tiny child and I asked my mother what I was, and she answered English, Irish, and little bit of Dutch. She then she whispered, “It’s really a little bit of German, but don’t tell anybody”.
Actually, she was confused, it was Swedish, but she didn’t know it then. It took Ancestry to uncover my Swedish line. She never acknowledged her strong line of Swedish (and Dutch) ancestors. She died at 101. LOL
With ‘conservatives’ like Merkel, who needs liberals?
#13 and #14: WOW! I’ve heard rumors of this, but nothing this big before.
I’m on the Putin train. He knows climate change is BS and isn’t afraid to say so.
Trump/Putin 2016
VERHUDELN, verb. wertlos machen. zu hudeln (th. 4, 2, 1862). Eigentlich zu einem Hudel d. i. Fetzen, Lumpen machen. Die Zusammensetzung gibt die Bedeutung des einfachen Zeitwortes wieder, macht es aber durchaus transitiv. Hudeln und verhudeln ist fast nur in geistiger Bedeutung gebraeuchlich.
-Jakob Grimm
Actually, to make (something) into a "scrap" or "rag." The composite word reflects the meaning of the simple verb, but makes it by all means transitive. [The words] "hudeln" and "verhudeln" are now used almost exclusively metaphorically.
My example: Is our Constitution completely verhudelt? Not yet - but the pernicious effects of a cancerous liberalism continue to erode away our rights.
Regards,
I, personally, was aware only of the Swabian verb "hudeln" in the meaning "to be rushed, to act in a rushed manner."
Nur net hudele!"
"Don't rush!" (I.e.: Calm down, take it easy!)
To be honest, I see no etymological relation to the verb "verhudeln" in the sense of "to ruin something, to reduce something to tatters."
Regards,
yeah I did and the kid made out like a bandit from the Penguins. Gotta give them props for making up for the jagoff old guy’s nasty snatching of the puck.
Did more to ISIS in a few months than Obama did in years.
Putin for the Peace Prize.
Are you listening to the Trump press conference right now?
Good stuff.
No, I’m not.
He’s coaching high school?
I particularly liked his smack at Yellen and the Fed. I wonder if that will get more play.
Quite the dig at PapaBen.
yes. he prob has a kid at the school, we will prob know more as the season goes on. yesterday was day one of the process. Rand’s kid tried out, will prob be on JV with xsboy.
I meant your boy. This is the first I heard of him coaching.
oh yeah, I thought I said. he is going to coach the JV team. gets $ for it and everything. had to do an online sexual abuse class, as a prerequisite. Anyone doing anything at a school these days has to take something like that. at least down here. He has worked it out with his ofc to go in early and leave at 3 on the days he has games/practices. xshub is going to stop in for their first game which I think is Friday evening. we don’t want to embarrass him by all showing up, but we do miss Gonzaga hockey and it will be fun to go again. so we will ease ourselves in. Gord has several Gonzaga outfits already and a hat ; )
You probably said something while I was away.
Yes, you need background checks to do anything with kids nowadays.
Except make hoagies. That’s allowed, no questions asked.
I have spent the day so far dealing with the insanity of others-and I may not be done yet...
Some people can be distracted
By sensational talk and news-
And plenty of politicians know
That is a cheap and simple ruse
The modern Roman mob is easily
Ferhoodled by all the scandal
And the driveby media puts out
Just as much as they can handle
To keep Hillary from drinking
From a justifiably poisoned cup
So bring the bright and shiny-
Bread and circuses coming up...
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