Comments on: The Curmudgeon and the Catawampus http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: WAS MY FATHER A CURMUDGEON? | Pater Familias http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-156438 WAS MY FATHER A CURMUDGEON? | Pater Familias Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:44:48 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-156438 [...] Amis as “cantankerous (not curmudgeonly).” Anatoly Liberman at the Oxford Etymologist says that British usage and American usage differ, saying: ” A British curmudgeon is preeminently [...] [...] Amis as “cantankerous (not curmudgeonly).” Anatoly Liberman at the Oxford Etymologist says that British usage and American usage differ, saying: ” A British curmudgeon is preeminently [...]

]]> By: Monthly Gleanings: September 2009 : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-153743 Monthly Gleanings: September 2009 : OUPblog Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:50:49 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-153743 [...] over again. Let me refer our correspondents to this blog for some information on who versus whom, kitty/catty corner, and hunky-dory (separate posts were devoted to them). With regards to tomfoolery, see my book Word [...] [...] over again. Let me refer our correspondents to this blog for some information on who versus whom, kitty/catty corner, and hunky-dory (separate posts were devoted to them). With regards to tomfoolery, see my book Word [...]

]]> By: Monthly Gleanings, Part Two : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-153397 Monthly Gleanings, Part Two : OUPblog Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:49:11 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-153397 [...] correspondents and that have been discussed in this blog, sometimes in special posts: boondoggle, catawampus, charlatan, cocktail, flummox (probably a sound symbolic formation, like many verbs beginning with [...] [...] correspondents and that have been discussed in this blog, sometimes in special posts: boondoggle, catawampus, charlatan, cocktail, flummox (probably a sound symbolic formation, like many verbs beginning with [...]

]]> By: Stephen http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-42646 Stephen Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:11:43 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-42646 Here's an 1839 citation of catawampus (OED has 1840 for catawampous) with "chawing"--monsters presumably were thought chawing types--were bugs?: United States? Telegraph, (Washington, DC) Thursday, July 23, 1835; pg. 798 (=page 2 of 4 for this issue); Issue [200]; col A [article begns:] After some very catawampus chawing of the Philadelphia Vade Necum (a rival sporting paper), the Editor gives a programme of "THE DAY" --thus: EPITOME OF NEWS FOR SATURDAY Itemized and Condensed "Is the tale true, think ye?" "Very true, and not above a month old:-- Here are five justices hands to it!"--Shakespeare Fashionables leaving, People gathering, Cousind arriving, Horses bolting, Rockets flying, Tailors suffering....4th of July-ing. Here’s an 1839 citation of catawampus (OED has 1840 for catawampous) with “chawing”–monsters presumably were thought chawing types–were bugs?:

United States? Telegraph, (Washington, DC) Thursday, July 23, 1835; pg. 798
(=page 2 of 4 for this issue); Issue [200]; col A
[article begns:] After some very catawampus chawing of the Philadelphia Vade
Necum (a rival sporting paper), the Editor gives a programme of “THE DAY”
–thus:
EPITOME OF NEWS FOR SATURDAY
Itemized and Condensed

“Is the tale true, think ye?”
“Very true, and not above a month old:–
Here are five justices hands to it!”–Shakespeare

Fashionables leaving, People gathering, Cousind arriving, Horses bolting,
Rockets flying, Tailors suffering….4th of July-ing.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-11252 Anonymous Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:51:09 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/06/words-2/#comment-11252 If you want to see how the two main senses of curmudgeon can be psychologically inseperable in one person, take a look at Molier's THE MISER. If you want to see how the two main senses of curmudgeon can be psychologically inseperable in one person, take a look at Molier’s THE MISER.

]]>