blutherbung

[prettygoodword]

Forgotten English Friday!


blutherbung - "To break down in speech; to lose the thread of conversation. —Jabez Good's Glossary of East Lincolnshire, 1900"


Not that I'd ever do that. I can't confirm this word, as Google Books doesn't have the source, and all search results for the word are derived from the calendar (including multiples from a poet who titled a poem this) -- but I can't resist it anyway.

---L.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

How can you doubt the authenticity of a word included in a book by someone with as provoking a name as Jabez Good? Jabez Good. The Johnny B. Good of his day.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I'd trust the authenticity of Jabez Good more if he were from the 17th (or possibly 18th) century, and had a final -e on his last name.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You suspect good Mr. Good of being pseudonoymous?!

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

More, I haven't been able to confirm his scholarship. Or maybe his fieldwork.

---L.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Ni-i-ice!

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

---L.