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Thank you so much! I will let you know! 🌈 🎶 💫

Thanks for your sensitivity... But, that's where we were... and in many cases (sadly)... we still are...

Still... they're one of my favourite bands... no one compares... they're their own genre...

I couldn't fit it in the first time around... but when you expressed interest I went back...

Yes, I've noticed... So far the different Scottish brogues have proven most difficult for me to follow...

This is one of the reasons I'm proud to be a descendant of the British Isles... You've maintained the vast richness and variety of your culture... Giving me roots far deeper than here...

Neither did I. You're welcome... Yes, quite!

Words are one of my passions!!!

... initial spellings (in print from 1963) do not reflect such a derivation (*Codd’s wallop and *coddswallop with -dd- are not found), and there is an 80-year gap between the proposed coinage and attestation.

And more...

...with the suggestion that codswallop is a derisive term for soft drinks by beer drinkers, from Codd’s + wallop (“beer”), thus sarcastically “Codd’s beer”. There is no evidence that early uses had this sense; the slang term wallop (“beer”) appeared after Codd’s lifetime...

Here's more... Originally written (1963) codswallop; the spelling cod's wallop is later.

A frequently given etymology, although widely rejected as a folk etymology, derives it from Hiram Codd, British soft drink maker of the 1870s, known for the eponymous Codd-neck bottle...

That jives with my family's take, too.

It's been fascinating to study and learn the different dialects in the UK... I watch a lot of British, Scottish, Welsh and Irish films and shows...

Yes... Looked her up... BTW... I'm an American citizen... With strong Scottish and Welsh roots... I've been studying my ancestral land and culture going on 16 years... There's a lot to know!!! Thanks for your responses... enlightening!

I live in the Pacific Northwest (PNW).

That's what I thought...

So far, Wiktionary keeps up... It looks like they do a good job of researching origins, meaning, and timeline of usage...

I use a combination of Webster's Collegiate 1979, Roget's Thesaurus (book) 1972, The New Roget's II (online), Wiktionary

Poppycock

Borrowed from Dutch pappekak, from Middle Dutch pappe (“soft food”) + kak (“dung, excrement”).

I think that's it!

P. S. I was going to look them up anyway... Enjoy! 🌞

Tomfoolery

From Tom (a common man) +‎ foolery.

1. Foolish behaviour or speech.
Synonym: buffoonery
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Jewellery.

Whippersnapper

Extension of *whip-snapper (“a cracker of whips”), or perhaps from snipper-snapper. Compare also whipperginnie (“term of abuse for a woman”), late 16th c.

(colloquial) A young and cheeky or presumptuous person; often with a connotation of ignorance via inexperience. [from 1670s]

Flummoxed

Uncertain, probably risen out of a British dialect. The notion to throw down roughly and untidily.

First use appears c. 1837 in the writings of Charles Dickens.

(OED finds candidate words in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, southern Cheshire, and Sheffield)

Synonym: Flabbergast

Perplexed

From Old French, from Latin perplexus (“entangled, confused”), from per (“through”) + plexus, perfect passive participle of plectō (“plait, weave, braid”).

Skedaddle

First use appears c. 1861, in the New York Tribune. Gained prominence in Civil War military contexts.

Possibly alteration of British dialect scaddle (“run off in a fright”), from adjective scaddle (“wild, timid, skittish”), from Middle English scathel, skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”)

Fiddlesticks

Circa 1600, England. From fiddlestick, from the late Middle English fidillstyk (“violin bow”).

Jolly

From Middle English joli, jolif (“merry, cheerful”),
From Old French joli, jolif (“merry, joyful”).

Hanky-Panky

Possibly a corruption of the Romani expression hakk'ni panki ("great trick", "big con" and hence "shady dealings")

1. Mischievous behaviour, dishonest or shady activity.
2. Amorous behaviour, especially if illicit.
3. A debaucherous act; a sexual act that is considered inappropriate.

Crikey

Euphemistic substitute for Christ, perhaps a corruption of Christ King. Compare criminy, cripes, crivvens. Attested from the 19th century.

Gosh

Altered from God. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (circa 1553).

Gallivanting

1809, from gallant (“wooing women”), originally in sense “to flirt”

Broadened to mean “roaming without plan”.

Kerfuffle

Probably from Scots curfuffle, equivalent to ker- +‎ fuffle, or related to Irish cíor thuathail (“confusion, bewilderment”). Similar to modern Welsh cythrwfl (“uproar, trouble, agitation”)

Malarkey

Of unknown origin; the word was popularized by the Irish-American cartoonist Thomas Aloysius (“Tad”) Dorgan (1877–1929), who started using it in cartoons on March 9, 1922.

Maybe from Irish mallachtóireacht or Greek μαλακίες (malakíes)

Blimey

A minced oath derived from (God) blind me (either concurrent with or from a clipping of cor blimey or gorblimey), or blame me.

Compare crivvens, drat, etc.

(UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) Used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc. [From late 19th c.]

Synonyms: wow

Bamboozled - nothing...

Codswallop

Unknown. Attested from a 1959 episode of the UK TV series Hancock's Half Hour. The writers (Galton and Simpson) state that the phrase was in general use when the show was broadcast.

A national TV appeal in the UK in 2006 failed to find earlier references... more

... More than likely!

Gobsmacked

As if smacked (“hit”) in the gob (“mouth (Irish / Scottish gaelic)”).

Attested since 1959, from Northern English dialect, particularly Liverpool, popularized via television.

Maybe... 😎

Chuffed

From dialectal (northern England, not Scotland) chuff, originally meaning “puffed with fat”. First attested in 1957.

Flabbergasted

The origin of the verb is uncertain; possibly dialectal (Suffolk), from flabby or flap (“to strike”) + aghast.

The word may be related to Scottish flabrigast (“to boast”) or flabrigastit (“worn out with exertion”). *

* From my latest fav dictionary - Wikitionary