mubble-fubbles
Aug. 2nd, 2018 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordcontinuing the week of obs. words:
mubble-fubbles (MUH-buhl-fuh-buhls) - n., (obs.) low spirits, the blue-devils, the mopes.
Usually with "the" and in the plural, as in having the mubble-fubbles. Or as Shakespeare put it in Cymbeline, "He did incline to sadness, and oft-times / Not knowing why." Sometimes spelled mubblefubbles, mumble-fubbles, and mubble fubbles. Origin unknown, aside from the obvious redupication element.
Edvard Munch has, as usual for the darker moods, a good depiction:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
mubble-fubbles (MUH-buhl-fuh-buhls) - n., (obs.) low spirits, the blue-devils, the mopes.
Usually with "the" and in the plural, as in having the mubble-fubbles. Or as Shakespeare put it in Cymbeline, "He did incline to sadness, and oft-times / Not knowing why." Sometimes spelled mubblefubbles, mumble-fubbles, and mubble fubbles. Origin unknown, aside from the obvious redupication element.
Edvard Munch has, as usual for the darker moods, a good depiction:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
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