LL-L "Idiomatica" 2005.05.18 (02) [E/S]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Idiomatica" [E/S]

> From: John Law <info at airt.co.uk>
> Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 2005.05.16 (09) [E]

> On the ither haun, I hae ti juist quote (anent whitna guid cook hunger
> micht
> be:) "Hungir's guid kitchen."
>
> Sawney Fleimin'll tell ye aa aboot kitchen as a Scots verb, tho.

Ay, like, "Kitchen? I'll kitchen you in a meenit!"  :)

Seriously "kitchen" is anything used to make plain food taste better,
whether as drink or as a sauce or a spread. So to "kitchen" something is to
apply kitchen to it.

An example occurs in the story of the Red Etin, which is the Scots version
of Jack and the Beanstalk. Instead of:

Fee-fo-fy-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman,
Be he alive or be he dead,
I'll crush his bones to make my bread.

we have:

Snowk but an snowk ben,
I finnd the smell o an earthly man;
Be he leevin, be he deid,
His hert this nicht sall kitchen my breid.

snowk - sniff hard to try to detect a smell
but - in the outer room of the house
ben - in the inner room of the house
finnd - to smell
hert - heart

"Kitchen" can also mean to spin something out for economy, to make something
last.

As for the proverb John quoted, here's an extended version:

"Hunger's guid kitchen tae a cauld tattie, but a wet divot tae the lowe o
love."

And we also have:

"Butter tae butter's nae kitchen."

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Idiomatica

Sandy (above):

> Ay, like, "Kitchen? I'll kitchen you in a meenit!"  :)

So what's the meaning of that then?  A threat I suppose.  Or is it too
naughty to explain?

Cheers,
Reinhard/Ron

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