LL-L "Lexicon" 2003.07.09 (01) [E]

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From: "Friedrich W. Neumann" <Fieteding at gmx.net>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2003.07.08 (04) [E]

Hi, Luc and Reynhard,

Jii schreeven:

> From: "Luc Hellinckx" <luc.hellinckx at pandora.be>
> Subject: Lexicon

> Indeed, in Brabantish we also use a verb like "höögen" (pronounced like
> "a üëgen" =
> "zich hogen"(D)) when we want to describe the speech of a person X who
> is trying to
> convince other people of his righteousness (to put it mildly *s*). This
> usually
> happens in a dialogue where one person Y says something, with which X
> doesn't agree
> completely, so he starts raising his voice and gets excited...hence
> "hogen". He tries
> to surpass Y. We could also say that X "smajt öm op", "piert öm
> op"...which litterally
> means that he is sort of "throwing himself up in the air"*s*.

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Lexicon
>
> Luc wrote above:
>
> > We could also say that X "smajt öm op", "piert öm op"...which litterally
> > means that he is sort of "throwing himself up in the air"*s*.
>
> In Lowlands Saxon (Low German), too, we say _sik upsmieten_ ~ _sik
> opsmieten_ (e.g., _he smitt sik up_) in the sense of 'to put on airs',
> 'to pump oneself up (to seem important)', 'to sell/promote oneself',
> etc.

Exactly- that's it!
'To believe oneself to be higher than Mr. X or Y!'

We have got a word in (UG): "[sich] mokieren" (there we perhaps got the
{E}
"mocking bird")  in, as far as I think, exactly the same meaning!

Greutens

Fiete.

Thanks

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