Encyclopedia BriannicaCLIPPY IS A NICKNAME?! The formal name of the Word assistant is CLIPPIT. Welcome to the clan, friend. #CutthroatCompounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
@hugovk !! I'll add it to the list! I've found 2 modern nonce examples describing this tool with animal variants: scare-shark and scare-elephant, and then the historical variants of fray-boggard, fray-bug, flay-crake, gally-beggar, scare-beggar, gally-crow, fear-crow. #CutthroatCompounds #AmResearching
SCARE-GNOME (2024) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-fpoRUxD53/ is one of many SCARECROW (1553) nonce variants: SCARE-BULLFINCH (1772), SCARE-GOBLIN (2015), SCARE-ELEPHANT (2017), SCARE-SHARK (2021). (But there are also many #CutthroatCompounds that scare that are not SCARECROW related).
The Dad Who Lived on Instagram: "Ep 🪴🧑🌾 | Woplop is having issues with garden gnomes. Anyone know how to get rid of gnomes? #fantasy #yafantasy #harrypotter #comedyvid #parody"
481 likes, 8 comments - thedadwholived on August 10, 2024: "Ep 🪴🧑🌾 | Woplop is having issues with garden gnomes. Anyone know how to get rid of gnomes? #fantasy #yafantasy #harrypotter #comedyvid #parody".
Somebody at the North Florida Wildlife Center knows how to rebracket endocentric compounds into #CutthroatCompounds… 🥰🥰🥰
Thank goodness I watched today's new #GiveItToMeStraight interview - Maddy Morphosis gave Bumpits to Chrissy Chlapecka at the end. I have now added BUMPIT (2008) to my list of #CutthroatCompounds. It's not in the OED. https://youtu.be/vFdQEpYegYY?si=OXBIlcfm8rnL6Eci&t=3596 #AmResearching
CHRISSY CHLAPECKA - "Give It To Me Straight" Ep20 - Hosted by Maddy Morphosis
I got a hot tip about a real-life cat named EATBUGS, and in trying to find a citation date for someone's pet, I found the 1985 cat fantasy novel Tailchaser's Song has a cat named Eatbugs, plus 20 other potential #CutthroatCompounds - Hangbelly, Quiverclaw, Fumblefoot, Hushpad, Pokesnout, Howlsong, Hissblood, Slitbelly, Snufflenose, Wavetail, Twitchnose, Snaremouse, Snagrat!!! https://tailchaserssong.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters #AmResearching
HINDERLOVE is not in the OED, but English: Past and Present credited it to "The Passionate Morrice" (1593) which is also on Google Books and has this quote: "It is a halting crack-halter; a hurtfull hinderloue, and best he shall be knowne by his stumpe foote." Seems like a nonce usage. Every search for "hinderloue" with a u point back to this one passage. It's the only cutthroat with HINDER as the verb that I have so far, it join 23 other H- verbs. #CutthroatCompounds #AmResearching 7/6
BLUR-PAPER turns out to be in the OED, as a bad writer, a scribbler, so BLUR- is now a new verb on my list (along with 30 other B verbs), and it joins a family of bad writers: SPOIL-PAPER and WASTE-PAPER. I think I'll stop here for tonight. #CutthroatCompounds #AmResearching 6/6
I can't Google anything useful for BLURPAPER or CHERISH-THIEVES (BlurPaper is also an image modifying app now), so I look CHERISH-THIEVES up on Google Books too, and find Rogue and Early Modern English Culture (2010) that says CHERISH is actually an adjectival form of CHARE, meaning it's a back-lane thief, not a cutthroat either. To the NOT REAL ONES tab with you as well. #CutthroatCompounds #AmResearching 5/?
The English: Past and Present book also told me that RAKE-HELL was originally RAKEL in Chaucer, and not a cutthroat, but is has been interpreted that way, and has inspired other RAKE cutthroats (-JAKES, -KENNEL, -MOULD, -SHAME, & -STRAW) , so I think it stays on my list. Not originally made with the same morphology, but rebracketed to be one in the 1540s based on the idiom "to rake hell with a fine tooth comb," and influential. 4/? #CutthroatCompounds #AmResearching