10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «OOFTISH»
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Although "Ooftish" may have been provoked by a clergyman's sermon, Beckett's
own maladies and the malady of Germany must have contributed to the mordant
tone. As Harvey reports the sermon, a clergyman addressed his flock: "What gets
...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from ...
Oof (or Ooftish). Money. Oof-bird, the goose that lays the golden eggs, the source
of supply ; the feathered oof-bird, money in plenty ; to make the oof -bird walk, to
circulate money ; oofless, poor. [Ooftish was, some twenty years ago, the East ...
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1905
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Samuel Beckett: Poems, short fiction, and criticism
Ooftish. offer it up plank it down Golgotha was only the potegg cancer angina it is
all one to us cough up your T.B. don't be stingy no trifle is too trifling not even a
thrombus anything venereal is especially welcome that old toga in the mothballs
...
Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, 2006
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
1891, 'Ooftish was, some twenty years ago, the East End [Yiddish] synonym for
money, and was derived from [Ger.] auftische [properly aufdem tische], “on the
table”, because one refused to play cards for money unless the cash were on the
...
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Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of ...
A variant form is ooftish : Judy, Aug. 24, 1887, 92" : " It has just been decided that
according to a clause in the Employers' Liability Act, a vicious horse comes under
the heading of 'defective plant'. No matter where, or how, the steed elects to ...
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Collected Poems in English and French
Ooftish offer it up plank it down Golgotha was only the potegg cancer angina it is
all one to us cough up your T.B. don't be stingy no trifle is too trifling not even a
thrombus anything venereal is especially welcome that old toga in the mothballs
...
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American Journal of Numismatics
An English slang term for money, and a corruption of ooftish, 'i.e., from the
German auf dem Tisch, meaning “on the table.” . J. W. Pearce, in Modern Society
(January 16, 1892), says: “Oof as a current pseudonym for money has been in
use for ...
Beckett brings religious and culinary associations together with the idea of the
lamb as victim in 'Ooftish', a poem written in 1938: 'we'll put it in the pot with the
rest I it all boils down to the blood oflamb' (GP, p. 31). Beckett often brings sheep
...
ud turn in hith grave at Villethden if I didn't go it—an' Greenboam commentheth to
rap on the table with hith knuckleth, an' thays: 'Ooftish, Larzaruth, ooftish'—
meanin' 'put up the money to pay uth vith 32 HOUNDSDITCH DAY BY DAY.
Arthur Morris Binstead, 1899
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A Companion to Samuel Beckett
In August 1937, by then back in Dublin, Beckett wrote “Ooftish” (under the title “
Whiting”). Not until early 1938 did he achieve any fluency, however, and by then
it was in Paris and writing in French. But even an improved rate of frequency
could ...
NOTIZIE DOVE SI INCLUDE IL TERMINE «OOFTISH»
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ooftish nel contesto delle seguenti notizie.
TATTERS OF SONG
The poems' very titles—“Enueg” (a troubadour complaint lyric), “Sanies” (discharge from an infection), “Ooftish” (“derives,” says Wheatley, “from ... «Brooklyn Rail, mar 10»
