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Owen in the dictionary...
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Word of the Day for Thursday, July 15, 2010
brannigan \BRAN-i-guhn\, noun:
1. A carouse.
2. A squabble; a brawl.
Polonius certainly spoke a mouthful of truth to Laertes when he advised him, in effect, "Don't start a Brannigan. But if somebody else does, give 'em hell!
-- Ty Cobb and Al Stump, My life in baseball: the true record
Emerson says in his essay on compensation that those who who would enjoy the wolfish Satisfaction of shovelling it in each Morning must forego the simple Delights of acquiring a Brannigan the Night before.
-- George Ade, Hand-made fables
A brannigan is a case of a word acquiring general meaning after already existing as a family name.
Word of the Day for Thursday, July 15, 2010
brannigan \BRAN-i-guhn\, noun:
1. A carouse.
2. A squabble; a brawl.
Polonius certainly spoke a mouthful of truth to Laertes when he advised him, in effect, "Don't start a Brannigan. But if somebody else does, give 'em hell!
-- Ty Cobb and Al Stump, My life in baseball: the true record
Emerson says in his essay on compensation that those who who would enjoy the wolfish Satisfaction of shovelling it in each Morning must forego the simple Delights of acquiring a Brannigan the Night before.
-- George Ade, Hand-made fables
A brannigan is a case of a word acquiring general meaning after already existing as a family name.
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Boycott is another example.thebish wrote:The Dictionary.com word of the day is......
Word of the Day for Thursday, July 15, 2010
brannigan \BRAN-i-guhn\, noun:
1. A carouse.
2. A squabble; a brawl.
Polonius certainly spoke a mouthful of truth to Laertes when he advised him, in effect, "Don't start a Brannigan. But if somebody else does, give 'em hell!
-- Ty Cobb and Al Stump, My life in baseball: the true record
Emerson says in his essay on compensation that those who who would enjoy the wolfish Satisfaction of shovelling it in each Morning must forego the simple Delights of acquiring a Brannigan the Night before.
-- George Ade, Hand-made fables
A brannigan is a case of a word acquiring general meaning after already existing as a family name.
And Shrapnel.
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And SilhouetteZulus Thousand of em wrote: Boycott is another example.
And Shrapnel.
And Hooligan
And Moat
OK, I lied about the last one.
hmmm... eponyms.
from the fashion world... Amelia Bloomer, an American feminist of the 1800s, championed the undergarment known as bloomers. And the French aerialist Jules Leotard, creator of the flying trapeze, popularized the even more daring tights.
more topically - golf - Bertha Krupp, a German military manufacturer during World War I. Her firm made a giant howitzer that British soldiers dubbed Big Bertha. But the hefty arms merchant has been redeemed through sport: Contemporary golfers refer to her fondly as they swing the innovative driver named -- what else? -- Big Bertha.
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from the fashion world... Amelia Bloomer, an American feminist of the 1800s, championed the undergarment known as bloomers. And the French aerialist Jules Leotard, creator of the flying trapeze, popularized the even more daring tights.
more topically - golf - Bertha Krupp, a German military manufacturer during World War I. Her firm made a giant howitzer that British soldiers dubbed Big Bertha. But the hefty arms merchant has been redeemed through sport: Contemporary golfers refer to her fondly as they swing the innovative driver named -- what else? -- Big Bertha.
(culled from.. http://www.rd.com/people-who-become-wor ... 12148.html)
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Somehow I imagine the word 'crapper' meaning toilet comes from the word 'crap' as opposed to his name .Worthy4England wrote:Aye but did we have crappers, to do said crap upon?Prufrock wrote:Was just coincidentally named. The word 'crap' already existed.Gary the Enfield wrote:Thomas CRAPPER
He did however invent, not the flushing toilet, but the wonderfully named 'ball-cock'.
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the ball-cock was named after Cannon & Ball. when they used come on - people used to shout "cock!" - hence - "Canon and ball - cock" - later shortened to "ball-cock" - meaning summat to be flushed away quickly and without fuss... FACTPrufrock wrote:Somehow I imagine the word 'crapper' meaning toilet comes from the word 'crap' as opposed to his name .Worthy4England wrote:Aye but did we have crappers, to do said crap upon?Prufrock wrote:Was just coincidentally named. The word 'crap' already existed.Gary the Enfield wrote:Thomas CRAPPER
He did however invent, not the flushing toilet, but the wonderfully named 'ball-cock'.
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We should not go any further into the Blackburn invention of the Sis-Turn !thebish wrote:the ball-cock was named after Cannon & Ball. when they used come on - people used to shout "cock!" - hence - "Canon and ball - cock" - later shortened to "ball-cock" - meaning summat to be flushed away quickly and without fuss... FACTPrufrock wrote:Somehow I imagine the word 'crapper' meaning toilet comes from the word 'crap' as opposed to his name .Worthy4England wrote:Aye but did we have crappers, to do said crap upon?Prufrock wrote:Was just coincidentally named. The word 'crap' already existed.Gary the Enfield wrote:Thomas CRAPPER
He did however invent, not the flushing toilet, but the wonderfully named 'ball-cock'.
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Hold on a second. Certainly the noun 'crap' already existed from early times but, according to the OED, was first noted to mean excrement in 1896 after Thomas had done his thing (so to speak). As a verb it was also a C19th coinage. The term crapper to refer to a water closet came as an eponym from Thomas who proudly put his name on the bowl, so we cannot brush it off as mere coincidence.Prufrock wrote:Was just coincidentally named. The word 'crap' already existed.Gary the Enfield wrote:Thomas CRAPPER
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