10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MARROWSKY»
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Critical essays on Vladimir Nabokov
A marrowsky is, almost, Makarovski, Macaronski, Skomorovski, and Koma- rov;
Kinbote is Botkin, Botkine, Bodkin, and, with a leap, Nabokov. To say "Nabokov"
is no violation of the truth, for the "marrowsky," the similarity of word to word, is the
...
The spiral offers us an explanation, also, of the marrowsky (Nabokov, or rather
Charles Kinbote, defines this word in Pale Fire as "a rudimentary spoonerism"). A
marrowsky is, almost, Makarovski, Macaronski, Skomorovski, and Komarov; ...
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
This wonderful word comes from a Greek word meaning 'raised by one's
grandmother.' marcescible [mahr-ses-i-buhl] an adjective meaning 'tending or
likely to wither or fade.' From a Latin word meaning 'to be faint.' marrowsky [muh-
row-skee] ...
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The Excitement of Verbal Adventure: A Study of Vladimir ...
Spoonerisms A spoonerism (or marrowsky [22, 185, 310]) is a transposition of
initial sounds of usually two words. While the main morphological character of the
words is preserved, they exchange one or several initial letters. Spoonerism ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Modern English: Grammar, Syntax ...
meta- repetitive sound or word used in Buddhist and Hindu meditative chant as
an aid to concentration. marrowsky The same as spoonerism (qv), and also as a
verb, to utter a spoonerism. Said to derive from Polish Count Marrowski, who ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
The transposition of the initials of words (as in poke a smipe, smoke a pipe), with
variant adj. and n. marrowsky or mowrowsky: ca 1860–1900. In 1848 described
by Albert Smith as Gower Street dialect (cf. MEDICAL GREEK), it was affected by
...
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Full circle: a collection of poems
a collection of poems Arthur Magill. metrophobia — n. hatred or fear of poetry. • • •
Metrophobia is not concerned with subways, super cities or their byways. It's
about people who are uptight about what all the poets write. marrowsky — n.
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QPB encyclopedia of word and phrase origins
British public servant Ernest Bevin, who once served in Winston Churchill's
cabinet, was a mangler and mauler of language on par with the Reverend
William Spooner, Count Joseph Marrowsky, film producer Samuel Goldwyn, and
baseball ...
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Aren't you rather young to be writing your memoirs?
Ah well, said the Reverend Vinyl, You're human like the rest of them, l suppose.
But my beknighted brother, the good Sir Maritan, who lives at Whipps Cross,
once cured — Whipps Cross? said Mr. Ball, abandoning Marrowsky in the ...
Bryan Stanley Johnson, 1973
Marrowsky, a,a rudimentary spoonerism, from the name of a Russian diplomat of
the early 19thcentury, Count Komarovski, famousat foreign courtsfor
mispronouncing his own name – Makarovski, Macaronski, Skomorovski, etc.
Mass, Mars ...
