10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «MIMINY-PIMINY»
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Blind man's holiday; or, Short tales for the nursery, by the ...
She thought, as she walked home, that she would never say anything more about
that foolish name, Miss Miminy Piminy ; but she found out then, as she has often
found since, that when a thing is once said, it is not at all easy to unsay it again.
2
Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems and Poetics
Greenery-yallery is a characteristic Gilbertian invention, a nonce-rhyming couplet
, a bit of pleasantly meaningless rhyming noise. It's modelled on, and rhymes with
, the attractive older bit of rhyming nonsense miminy-piminy which went back to ...
Valentine Cunningham, 2011
3
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
Miminy-piminy, Innocent ingenoo! ENSEMBLE. LUD. JULIA. The part you're
suited to— I'm much obliged to you, (To give the deuce her due) I don't think that
would do— A sweet (O, jiminy!) To play (O, jiminy!) Miminy-piminy, Miminy-piminy
, ...
Arthur Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert, 1940
4
A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z
W.S. Gilbert, for instance, wrote of his 'aesthete' hero in Patience: 'A blue-and-
white young man, / Francesca da Rimini, miminy, piminy, / Je-ne-sais-quoi young
man!' ('When I go out of door,' act 2). Joyce writes: '... went Bloom, soft Bloom, ...
Bernard Marie Dupriez, Albert W. Halsall, 1991
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
W. S. Gilbert, in Patience, has one of the rival poets sing: Conceive me, if you can
, A Japanese young man, Francesca da Rimini, miminy piminy, Je-ne-sais-quoi
young man. L nihil, nil (again see ne), gave rise to various expressions.
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009
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Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
In 1 81 5, miminy-piminy l1lI'Il€d up with the same meaning (ridiculously delicate
or over-refined). An ancient Roman invented lardum (lard), and a nineteenth-
century Englishman thought of lardy-dardy. A word history need not be full of ...
7
Book of Humorous Quotations
... the pillows. pills 2469 you bitter pills in sugar 2831 some 'do-give-a-damn' pills.
piminy 1634 miminy, piminy, pimpernel 3147 That demmed, elusive Pimpernel?
pin 3569 have heard a pin drop, pineapple 3874 is the very pineapple of pink ...
8
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
... made to look well for a time, but not to last ; work done with bad material.
MIMINY-MOUTHED, adj. Mid]. afi'ected. See Mim. Pictures of miminy-mouthed
ladies and spindly tops, BARTRAM Profit 0] Cloplon (1897) 95. MIMINY-PIMINY,
inl.
9
The Biography of the British Stage: Being Correct Narratives ...
What his talents as a linen-draper were, unfortunately no contemporary
biographer has detailed; if he delivered the dialogue of the counter in the miminy
piminy way he favours hisaudienee with Shakspeare and Otway, we should
suppose he ...
10
Glenalpin: Or The Bandit's Cave
... she certainly should not forget to practise the fascinating miminy piminy
recommended by Lady Emily to Miss Alsop the heiress, or they might prove a
misfor-v tune to her; as should she find they, alone attracted admiring attention,
she feared ...
