BULLOCKS - euph/typo/LA pron.?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks for checking this, Peter.

JL

"Peter A. McGraw" <pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> wrote:
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And I'm sorry to report that my big Nederlands Koenen (M.J. Koenen & J.B.
Drewes, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal, 27th ed.) gives no
evidence of a word *pappekak, *pappenkak, *papkak or any other compound of
pap and kak in contemporary Dutch. So I guess the etymology of poppycock
will have to be sought elsewhere.

Peter Mc.

--On Wednesday, May 4, 2005 10:58 AM -0400 Laurence Horn
wrote:

>> isn't "papekak" [sic] soft dung/excrement rather than the dried-up
>> variety? Any Dutch speakers on the list?
>
> ...and I've since acknowledged that the spelling should have been
> "pappekak"



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