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| 355.1 | high jinks = low comedy? | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Mon May 11 1987 20:27 | 7 |
| Webster's New World refers the reader to "jink" meaning 2, where
it offers:
[pl.] lively pranks; boisterous fun: in full, usually _high
jinks_.
Bernie
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| 355.2 | | WAGON::DONHAM | Born again! And again, and again, and... | Tue May 12 1987 09:40 | 6 |
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_Webster's Ninth New Collegiate_ defines high jinks as "boisterous
or rambunctious caryings-on."
-Perry
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| 355.3 | Just a touch of the DOOMS | MLNIT5::FINANCE | | Wed May 13 1987 08:51 | 5 |
| mlnois::harbig
I suppose "low jinks" would then mean
particularly funereal festivities.
Max
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| 355.4 | | ERASER::KALLIS | Hallowe'en should be legal holiday | Wed May 13 1987 09:03 | 7 |
| Re .3:
I've heard "low jinks" used to describe practical jokes. When one
considers the intent of a practical joke, such a descriptor isn't
out of place.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 355.5 | Jinkin' like crazy. | MLNIT5::FINANCE | | Wed May 13 1987 10:32 | 10 |
| MLNOIS::HARBIG
Thanks Steve, my .3 was a joke of course but
I think I remember (not joking now) that the
two wheeled buggy in trotting races in Australia
was called a jinker probably because it bounced
up and down.
There is a lot of old cockney slang in "Strain"
which is a heritage from the days of Transportation.
Do any Brits know of an old Cockney verb " to jink"?
Max
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| 355.6 | | GENRAL::JHUGHES | NOTE, learn, and inwardly digest | Wed May 13 1987 17:49 | 17 |
| Re: .5:
> There is a lot of old cockney slang in "Strain"
> which is a heritage from the days of Transportation.
Surely the word is usually spelled (and pronounced) "Strine",
since that is the way that the native population pronounce the word
"Australian"?
> Do any Brits know of an old Cockney verb " to jink"?
This ex-Brit is familiar with the Standard English verb "to jink" --
quoted in Webster's New Collegiate as "to move quickly or unexpectedly
with sudden turns and shifts (as in dodging)".
I have generally heard it applied to an evasive action used by a
running back in Rugby football.
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| 355.7 | Or a rabbit chased by a dog | PASTIS::MONAHAN | | Wed May 13 1987 18:07 | 1 |
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| 355.8 | Straining belief ? | MLNIT5::FINANCE | | Thu May 14 1987 08:26 | 16 |
| MLNOIS::HARBIG
Re .6
Strine,strain or strane (as in strange without
the "G".
Maybe it's me memry or me ere 'oles but that's
how I remember it pronounced when I was at
school in Melbourne in the 50's.
Mind you Emma Chissit hadn't been invented
and 'Big Horse your mine' was a favourite
street song after the 'six o'clock swill'.
Any dinkum Aussies out there that can
elucidate ?
Maybe they could also give us the recipe for
for the acme of the Australian culinary art
" 'ow ter cook a Galah." while the're at it
Max
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