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Thread #38155 Message #2931197
Posted By: GUEST,David Bowman, Manhattan
19-Jun-10 - 04:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Origins: Maybellene (Chuck Berry)
Subject: Chuck Berry 'motorvating'
Chuck Berry singing MAYBELLINE
Most online lyric databases have Chuck Berry
'motivating' over the hill...
from, motivate
1885, "to stimulate toward action," from motive (q.v.), perhaps modeled on Fr. motiver or Ger. motivieren . Related: Motivated ; motivating .
Yet, I have always heard Berry 'motorvating' on the hill---
the man just turning the noun MOTOR into an adjective.
How deluded am I?