BULLOCKS - euph/typo/LA pron.?

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:49 AM -0700 5/4/05, Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>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.

googling "pappekak", the oft-repeated claim is that it's a
"dialectal" Dutch term for 'soft faeces', or whatever.  So we need a
dialect dictionary to confirm or disconfirm.  Could be an
etymythology, I suppose, assuming an ab ovo hoax and the usual
diaspora from there.

Larry

>
>--On Wednesday, May 4, 2005 10:58 AM -0400 Laurence Horn
><laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> 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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