Now, Maddie, my dear, do I really have to repeat my lectures on not making unkind remarks about yellow-bellied cowardly lily-livers? ;)
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Now, Maddie, my dear, do I really have to repeat my lectures on not making unkind remarks about yellow-bellied cowardly lily-livers? ;)
:lol:
No, not at all. Dont you think that is a very beautiful yellow-belly?? :D
*yellow-yellow dirty fellow. Saying it in my mind ofcourse*
:p :p
That's much better. Matches the yellow streak up their back to an absolute perfection, wouldn't you agree? :lol:
Why would I agree with the likes of you???
(just kidding!)
Ah, but wouldn't you regret it later if you didn't agree with a Dragon? Even a gentle dragon can still burn one to a crisp, hmm? :p
Would he really do that?
Anything is possible, don't you think? He is very nice, but who knows? :D
certainly not my Aunt Barbie...did you know that she failed her blood test last week?
She did? Do you know, I would have thought that a difficult test to fail? Did she not study hard enough? ;)
how is that?
how do you mean how is that?
Perhaps she is wondering how Aunt Barbie came to such a pass?
You wouldn't believe the ditzy nurse I had the last time they had to draw blood from me! On the other hand, she'll make a great artist one day, doncha know? :p
What is the origin of the word 'ditzy'?
Ah, is not the internet a fabulous thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by ennison
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ditzy
One entry found for ditzy.
Main Entry: dit·zy
Variant(s): or dit·sy /'dit-sE/
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): ditz·i·er or dits·i·er; -est
Etymology: origin unknown
: eccentrically silly, giddy, or inane : DIZZY
- dit·zi·ness or dit·si·ness /-n&s/ noun
So, what do you folks think? :lol:Quote:
9. Ditzy (1973). It is hard to believe that this word is of such recent origin. It means "eccentrically silly, giddy, or insane," according to the Collegiate. The OED calls it ditsy and points to dicty, a word first appearing in 1926, as the progenitor of ditsy. But dicty means "conceited, high-class, snobbish." Though the OED says that the origin is unknown, it seems to have emerged in Black English, as reflected in this 1944 quotation: "These (sic) are only a few dozen words and phrases that are uniquely Negro...such as 'dicty' which means trying to put on airs and act upper class without having the basis for doing so."
Thus, I have a hard time seeing how ditzy/ditsy might have been derived from dicty. In any case, once ditzy appeared on the scene in the late 1970s, it meant either "fussy"/"intricate" or, more frequently, "(Esp. of a woman) stupid, scatterbrained; cute." Even though we were in the middle of the feminist revolution at that time, the word ditzy seemed to take on a meaning associating it exclusively with women. From a Time movie review in 1981: "Bob Newhart plays the President of the United States. Madeline Kahn is his ditso wife. Gilda Radner is their ditsy daughter." Perhaps receding images of Goldie Hawn also helped to give it an anit-feminist life of its own. Or, perhaps when men felt threatened by the gradual incursions of feminist thought into the workplace, they retaliated by coining the term ditzy.