[Lexicog] Digest Number 464

[David Tuggy]

Bouncing Betty (a kind of landmine) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_betty

--David Tuggy

Leela Pienaar wrote:

>'creeping jenny' is the name of a well-known groundcover in SA. I also found the foll. in the OED:
> *jumping-betty*, a popular name of the Garden Balsam, /Impatiens Balsamina/, the seeds of which jump out of the elastic capsules when these are touched (Parish /Sussex Gloss./ 1875);
> *jumping-jack*,
>a child's toy made out of the merry-thought of a fowl; a toy figure of
>a man, which is made to jump by being pulled with strings; also /transf./: see quots.; 
>*jumping-Johnny **1865* /Reader/ No. 140. 264/1 The plate-sawing machine called a *Jumping Johnny.
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>Leela 
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>Leela Pienaar
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>Recently I  corresponded with someone on this list about the meaning of a
>>German ompound word following the pattern 'verb/noun + a first name as a  suffix,'
>> like: 
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>> Zappelphilipp = a  boy who can't sit still
>> Laberheini = rambling person (Heini is short for  Heinrich)
>> Heulsuse = someone (man or woman) who cries a lot (Suse is short  for
>> Susanne) 
> Examples would be  "smoking Joe" (for
>> the boxer Joe Frazier), "studying Jesse," "peeping Tom,"  "doubting Thomas",
>>  especially if they have "made it" to become common  expressions and are
>> included in the dictionary.
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>> Fritz  Goerling
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