European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 13 the stars and stripes monday May 25,1987 Lumens today s crossword yuck May fill linguistic need what s it like out today Yucky you reach Tor your Raincoat and begin a search for your overshoes which you used to Diu rubbers before that word became n Slang term for condom became. You know that Yucky Means inclement a won most often meaning Stormy based on be opposite of the latin a omens lenient mild. Ucli is an interjection used in such sentences As "1 have Jet stepped in the yuck mud and smote expressive of disgust than set which is now limited to the sound a cartoon elephant mates As he leaps on a Small chair after spotting a mouse. Unlike most interjection oops wort of ugh yuck spawned an adjective Yucky a Slang term that shows signs of serving a linguistic need and May centuries from now nuke i in Standard English. According to the Rev. John Boag s 1652-33 Imperial lexicon which appeared on my expense account a few Yean ago and which 1 feel the need to justify then was local verb yuck that meant to itch it was derived from the scottish Yuke and since at least the 1700s, the adjective Yuk has meant itching with curios the slightly nauseated Reader will recognize a Lin Between the current yuck and a Julie yes each of these words is imitative or onomatopoeia which Means i Means what it sounds like. In this Century the verb yuck first appeared in this sense in Canada s Newfoundland dialect and its retching gagging sound an sense have since been Euph Emited by College students everywhere As blow your cookies or drive the great White bus or embrace the porcelain altar. The comedian Fred Allen had much to do with the word s popularization As a noun. Hallen Smith in life in a Putty knife factory wrote yuck is word introduced into the language by Fred Allen. A yuck is a dope who makes a practice of going around appearing on quiz thu use May hive been influenced by Yak or Yock which has Long been a theatrical Slang term for laugh perhaps based on the English dialect Yoda with thai meaning. Saul Bellow in his 1964 novel Herzog wrote of a character boisterous beginning in 1970, the word took the adjective for Yucky and gained the sense of Nasty Sloppy distaste Ful to be avoided at All costs closely Allied to re Gurgi Union. It seems to have triumphed Over the similar icky has resisted replacement by Gross and its derivative a Jody but is now being challenged by a variant form the interjection Vecch and its adjectival acc clip. Predict Yucky will persevere but let us watch the comic strips for developments. Fore watch out for Golf metaphors and Spellings. In recent piece about ree up to prepare for play and by Extension to ready for decision used the words Nib lick and Caddy. Your use of Niblick in connection with tee up is Tobe kind i felicitous writes Alistair Cooke from his Library chair in some television studio. The Long gon Niblick is now known As a 9-Iron, the Only Lime you tee up for a Niblick shot is when you Are about to play a very Short Par 3 Hole. Adept with a driver1 would have been right since everybody ices up the Ball to drive off the Lee on a Par 4 or Par 5."then my Friend Alistair who was trained in linguistics whales the Dickens out of the Ball i teed up for him a Caddy it a Box you put Tea in. A Caddie from the French Cadet used to Tec up the on a tiny Mound of Sand he made from the Sand Box which used to stand by the tee markers. When wooden pegs Casein the player was deemed capable of pressing them in the ground former White House chief of staff Donald t. Rega had written to me that caddies teed up the Ball for players much As aides now provide presidents the bases for decision making. Cooke notes i never saw Caddie put a tee Peg in for anybody. Don Regan must belong to a club whose members must average Between 90 and 100 years of flying divots Are not in my game. I play the Victrola. Smoke and Mirror Arthurl Liman counsel to the Senate in the Iran Contra hearings wanted the witness to explain what sort of support was being Given the Nica Guan resistance Dur ing the period in which Congress had Cut off Aid. Basically it was smoke and mirrors laconically re plied former National Security adviser Robert c. Mcfarlane. A few months before the phrase surfaced in speech by Ronald Reagan about the budget process it s Wink and blink and smoke and mirrors said the president adding for emphasis and pulling rabbits out of phrase with color added was Given currency in 1981 by Jack w. Garmond and Jules Witcover As the title of the Book Blue smoke and mirrors How Rea Gan won and Why Carter lost the election of 1980."before that it appeared in the Washington Post on nov. 13, 1979, in an article by Bill Peterson about Straw poll win by George Bush campaigning for the Republican nomination for president the Victor was fleeting meaningless except in the Blue smoke and Mirror world of does it come from smoke has Long meant the stuff of confusion. In 1634, John Milton wrote of the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men then the word tool on the Quality of deliver ale concealment the word is defined in George Washington Matsell s 1859 vib pabulum or. The rogue s lexicon As Humbug any thing said to conceal the True sentiment of the in australian Slang logo into smoke is to go into hiding in naval warfare smokescreen is the concealment device of a warship and the metaphor has been applied in politics to mean a cover Story intended to obfuscate an Issue. In Japa Nese politics such evasion is More prettily described As throwing up Cherry blossoms but Blue smoke and mirrors is a specific image to politicians with a background in show business such As Reagan the phrase conjures the world of stage magicians where a Rabbit is pulled nut of a hat to the accompaniment of a puff of smoke and on occasion with the help of deceptive mirrors. Cd Khz Vort tunes i obey we user of the Lwi if hot we spirit. Its hear som water running the far Side Al the children s zoo
