10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOBSY-DIE»
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The Godzone Dictionary: Of Favourite New Zealand Words and ...
The bobby part comes from a Cornish dialect word for a very young calf. bobsy
die A commotion, an upheaval, a confusion. The origin is an ancient English
expression Bob's-a- dying. By 1800 the meaning of commotion and grief
surrounding ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
J. BRAINE By God, you're what my old Nanny used to call a bobby-dazzler in that
dress (1959). Cf. ruby-dazzler noun. bobsy-die noun NZ A fuss; usu. in phr. to
kick up bobsy-die. 1952–. T. MCLEAN By generally kicking up bobsy-die (1960).
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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A Survey of Modern English
1quoted in Gordon and Deverson 1985: 511 To help out, here is a short glossary:
stone the crows - expression of surprise sports 'guys' bobsy-die - 'fuss, panic' dag
-picking - 'sorting the wool from the dags' dag 'wool around a sheep's ...
Stephan Gramley, Michael Pátzold, 2004
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... hullabaloo, ballyhoo, business, pantomime, hoopla; NZ informal bobsy-die. 7
verb don't stand there palavering all day: chatter, gossip, prattle, prate, babble,
blather, blether, blither, maunder, gabble, jabber, tittle-tattle; Scottish & Irish
slabber ...
She's the sort of girl that'll get herself pregnant and kick up bobsy-die if the bloke
doesn't want to marry her. Rose: Esme's not like that at all. Mum: Whatever you
say, dear. Now what about your father's cup of tea? You get cracking. I'll try and ...
6
Studies in Etymology and Etiology: With Emphasis on ...
Cf. Austral. kick up Bobsy- die (fr. Brit. slang Bobs-a-dying, whence Anglo-Ind.
bobbery). [fr. Afk. bohaai 'noise; fuss', prob. rel. to Afk. hoehaai, Brit. Eng. hoo-ha,
and poss. to Fr. brouhaha] In Branford 1990, “noise, also hoehaai” is misprinted
as ...
David L. Gold, Antonio Lillo Buades, Félix Rodríguez González, 2009
ATHOl enters. Something has changed in him — the cheerful buffoon has
disappeared and he is very worried. ATHOl: Hate to bother you again laddie, but
Timothy's kicking up bobsy-die about the Wilson money. He's ready for his
settlement, ...
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
Rhyming slang for 'wash'; originally, during World War 1, 'to wash'; thereafter
used by pickpockets as 'on the bob' (stealing from the jackets of people washing
their hands) UK, 1961 bobsy-die noun a commotion or fuss. A variation on the ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
Kevin smith, lay ana Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 26, 2001 • — Gary K. Farlow,
Pnson-ese, p. 36, 2002 •• kick up bobsy-die to make a fuss NEW ZEALAND •
Been running around kicking up bobsy-die all morning. Must have a hangover, I
reckon.
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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Oxford Dictionary of English
probably from BOB1 + STAYZ. bobsy-die /,bDbZI'dAI/ > noun [mass noun] dialect
& NZ a great deal of fuss or trouble: she'll kick up bobsy-die later. — ORIGIN early
19th cent.: contraction of earlier Bob'sa-dying. bobtail > noun a docked tail of a ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOBSY-DIE»
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Gals must ensure rebuild lads stay
Back in the 1860s in the Otago gold rush when the men were recreationally unruly and kicking up bobsy-die, women were shipped in en masse ... «Stuff.co.nz, Dec 13»
London tube doco sad but true
There was the usual medley of late-night, skin-filled revellers entering the Tube and trains, doing brown eyes and kicking up Bobsy-die as we ... «The Dominion Post, Jun 12»
Hard talk on figures of speech
And what member of Generation X or Y would know what it means to kick up bobsy-die or rattle your dags? These were all common terms ... «Manawatu Standard, Mar 12»
Rich with good ideas
Would he be worth bobsy-die if the individuals at the bottom of the feed chain didn't do their job? "Any history student will tell you that when the ... «Whangarei Leader, Jan 12»
Corkery reveals battle with booze
"I kicked up bobsy-die. I wanted to go back. They said, 'Well, you can't enter and leave the country - again - to have a drink'." Corkery went to a ... «New Zealand Herald, Aug 10»
