Words you may not find in Folk songs

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: SonnyWalkman
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 11:47 AM

'Pusillanimous' certainly occurs in a Neil Innes song (possibly a Rutles number) but I've no idea what he rhymed it with.

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 11:41 AM

But you will find antigallican!

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: open mike
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 11:33 AM

antidisestablishmentarianism
supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
(which is used in a song in walt disney's Mary Poppins)

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: Bernard
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 11:23 AM

Erm... mallemaroking could be doing something unspeakable to an albatross (Molly Mawk)!

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: Dave Hunt
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 10:53 AM

.4. Mallemaroking - the carousing of seamen in icebound ships. A wonderfully useful word! How many icebound ships do we all know?
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'Mallemarokers' were a band - mostly members of Steamchicken and other musicians from Chinewerde Morris of Kenilworth

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: CupOfTea
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 10:47 AM

If Lou & Peter Berryman were English, you might very well have a song challenge that they'd take on. One of the most splendiferous things about their songs is the extensive and obscure vocabulary they use to get across a point succinctly. One must come up to their vocabulary, for they'll not talk down to you. I don't see "poodle-faker" being able to hold its own against Berryman phrases like "the wiener-dog of doom."

Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: melodeonboy
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 09:34 AM

I can't say that I've heard the word used in a song, but there is a folk group in Kent called Quidnunc.

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: mauvepink
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 09:27 AM

You have me totally discombobulated now!

I may start regretting starting this thread but I was being deprived of chocolate at the time...

xocolatllessness (not a true word but it should be on account of xocolatl having been the Aztecs word for it [bitter-water]) being a very serious life-threatening illness!

;-)

I am sure we will get many more like Rob's hopefully

mp

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 09:12 AM

Yes but look at who compiled entry No 50. Relax. it's not that Rod Stradling.

50. I'm disposed to immediately feel dyspathy with a secretary like Shea, but after goving at his story for a while, I begin to hansardize. There's no point in being philodoxical just because an apparently mundane subject deeply happifies another. I may stroke my natiform chin sceptically at Shea's cachinnations, but if such things truly make him tripudiate, then who am I to be the pejorist?
Rob Stradling, Cardiff.

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:38 AM

'Oxter' is used in the song 'Little Skillet Pot' :

" . . . with the boxty 'neath your oxter like a vision in a dream . . ."

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: Simon G
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:28 AM

Oxter is in 5 songs in Mudcat's lyrics.

Subject: RE: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: Will Fly
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:21 AM

I'm sure I've heard "oxter" (armpit) used in song but because of my cryptomnesia I just can't remember where.

Subject: Words you may not find in Folk songs
From: mauvepink
Date: 10 Oct 08 - 08:05 AM

See if you know of any songs that have the following words in them at all or are we all just too Pusillanimous??? ;-)

Fifty favourite Words

Have fun!

mp