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Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road And all the way to Dublin, whack-fol-la-de-da In the merry month of June, when first from home I started, And left the girls alone, sad and broken-hearted. Shook hands with father dear, kissed my darling mother, Drank a pint of beer, my tears and grief to smother;
"Finnegan's Wake" (Roud 1009) is an Irish-American comic folk ballad, first published in New York in 1864. [1] [2] [3] Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels, claimed authorship but a definitive account of the song's origin has not been established.
To me whack fol the diddle di do, to me whack fol the diddle day. though one version, collected in Virginia from Asa Martin and titled "Lightning and Thunder", ends with the birth of a baby: The knife it was got and the britches cut asunder [sung three times] And then they went at it like lightnin' and thunder. Sing fol-de-rol-day.
Norwegian-Texan mug [1] Uff Da Shoppe in Westby, WI. Uff da (/ ˈ ʊ f d ə / ⓘ; sometimes also spelled oof-da, oofda, oofala, oof-dah, oofdah, huffda, uff-da, uffda, uff-dah, ufda, ufdah, or uf daa [citation needed]) is an American Scandinavian exclamation or interjection used to express dismay, typically upon hearing bad news.
A gloss is a notation regarding the main text in a document. Shown is a parchment page from the Royal Library of Copenhagen. A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is different.
In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (pl.: lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, [1] dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. [2] In English, for example, break , breaks , broke , broken and breaking are forms of the same lexeme , with break as the lemma by which they are indexed.
The dictionary credited British singer Charli XCX with making “brat” one of the most talked-about words in 2024. According to the singer, a brat is “that girl who is a little messy and likes ...
Fictionary, also known as the Dictionary Game [1] or simply Dictionary, [2] is a word game in which players guess the definition of an obscure word. Each round consists of one player selecting and announcing a word from the dictionary , and other players composing a fake definition for it.