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Post by Pacifica on Feb 1, 2024 18:49:07 GMT
lost its fervor
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Feb 1, 2024 18:55:41 GMT
Nobody seems to know where 'flirtation' comes from. But it's probably not right.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Feb 1, 2024 18:56:36 GMT
For the earlier blank.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 1, 2024 19:09:23 GMT
Nobody seems to know where 'flirtation' comes from. But it's probably not right. It fits the context very well, and the origin is *probably* Germanic, from what I can see. Maybe kizolk just missed the "of obscure origin" bit. 1553, from the merger of Early Modern English flirt (“to flick”), flurt (“to mock, jibe, scorn”), and flirt, flurt (“a giddy girl”). Of obscure origin and relation. Apparently related to similar words in Germanic, compare Low German flirt (“a flick of the fingers, a light blow”), Low German flirtje (“a giddy girl”), Low German flirtje (“a flirt”), German Flittchen (“a flirt; tart; hussy”), Norwegian flira (“to giggle, titter”). Perhaps from Middle English gill-flurt (“a flirt”), or an alteration of flird (“a trifling", also, "to jibe, jeer at”), from Middle English flerd (“mockery, fraud, deception”), from Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception”). Compare Scots flird (“to talk idly, flirt, flaunt”), Icelandic flærð (“trickiness, deceit”), Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”). See flird.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 20:42:21 GMT
And so on, with clapping of joyful hands till all the group had begged for invitations but Tom and Amy. Then Tom turned coolly away, still talking, and took Amy with him. Becky's lips trembled and the tears came to her eyes; she hid these signs with a forced gayety and went on chattering, but the life had gone out of the pic-nic, now, and out of everything else; she got away as soon as she could and hid herself and had what her sex call "a good cry." Then she sat moody, with wounded pride till the bell rang. She roused up, now, with a vindictive cast in her eye, and gave her plaited tails a shake and said she knew what she'd do. At recess Tom continued his flirtation with Amy with jubilant self-satisfaction. And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the p____ (3-syllable Latinate; "display/spectacle" wasn't bad but you need to reverse the perspective). At last he spied her, but there was a sudden falling of his m____ (2 or 3 syllables; it's metaphorical and comes from a proper noun). She was sitting cosily on a little bench behind the school-house looking at a picture book with Alfred Temple—and so absorbed were they, and their heads so close together over the book that they did not seem to be conscious of anything in the world besides. Jealousy ran red hot through Tom's veins. He began to hate himself for throwing away the chance Becky had offered for a reconciliation. He called himself a fool, and all the hard names he could think of. He wanted to cry with vexation. Amy chatted happily along, as they walked, for her heart was singing, but Tom's tongue had lost its f____ (2-syllable Latinate). He did not hear what Amy was saying, and whenever she paused expectantly he could only stammer an awkward assent, which was as often misplaced as ____ (3-syllable Germanic; starts with a vowel). He kept drifting to the rear of the school-house, again and again, to sear his eye-balls with the hateful spectacle there. He could not help it. And it maddened him to see, as he thought he saw, that Becky Thatcher never once suspected that he was even in the land of the living. But she did see, nevertheless; and she knew she was winning her fight, too, and was glad to see him suffer as she had suffered.
Maybe kizolk just missed the "of obscure origin" bit. Sorry, I should've been more careful. I did see it but the list of cognates convinced me the Germanic hypothesis was very likely, but I should've added a caveat. I guess I was too distracted by the fact that it didn't even mention the French hypothesis, nor any connection to Latin so I went with Germanic.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 20:45:09 GMT
Namely that it supposedly came from "conter fleurette", i.e. "(for a man) to court (a woman)". I heard it countless times growing up, but when I thought about it while adding etymological hints, it appeared pretty unlikely to me after all so I checked it.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 20:47:33 GMT
Hm... quite off for that blank (remember that "faculty" was relatively close), but interesting semantically for the m- blank.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 22:03:05 GMT
p____ (3-syllable Latinate; "display/spectacle" wasn't bad but you need to reverse the perspective) Namely, what a watcher would describe as a spectacle could be described as a p___ by the watchee.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 22:06:17 GMT
but there was a sudden falling of his m____ (2 or 3 syllables; it's metaphorical and comes from a proper noun)Hm... quite off for that blank (remember that "faculty" was relatively close), but interesting semantically for the m- blank. Hint phrase: fervent temperament.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 1, 2024 22:31:12 GMT
performance
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 22:34:28 GMT
And so on, with clapping of joyful hands till all the group had begged for invitations but Tom and Amy. Then Tom turned coolly away, still talking, and took Amy with him. Becky's lips trembled and the tears came to her eyes; she hid these signs with a forced gayety and went on chattering, but the life had gone out of the pic-nic, now, and out of everything else; she got away as soon as she could and hid herself and had what her sex call "a good cry." Then she sat moody, with wounded pride till the bell rang. She roused up, now, with a vindictive cast in her eye, and gave her plaited tails a shake and said she knew what she'd do. At recess Tom continued his flirtation with Amy with jubilant self-satisfaction. And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the performance. At last he spied her, but there was a sudden falling of his m____ (2 or 3 syllables; it's metaphorical and comes from a proper noun). She was sitting cosily on a little bench behind the school-house looking at a picture book with Alfred Temple—and so absorbed were they, and their heads so close together over the book that they did not seem to be conscious of anything in the world besides. Jealousy ran red hot through Tom's veins. He began to hate himself for throwing away the chance Becky had offered for a reconciliation. He called himself a fool, and all the hard names he could think of. He wanted to cry with vexation. Amy chatted happily along, as they walked, for her heart was singing, but Tom's tongue had lost its f____ (2-syllable Latinate). He did not hear what Amy was saying, and whenever she paused expectantly he could only stammer an awkward assent, which was as often misplaced as ____ (3-syllable Germanic; starts with a vowel). He kept drifting to the rear of the school-house, again and again, to sear his eye-balls with the hateful spectacle there. He could not help it. And it maddened him to see, as he thought he saw, that Becky Thatcher never once suspected that he was even in the land of the living. But she did see, nevertheless; and she knew she was winning her fight, too, and was glad to see him suffer as she had suffered.
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 23:18:33 GMT
And so on, with clapping of joyful hands till all the group had begged for invitations but Tom and Amy. Then Tom turned coolly away, still talking, and took Amy with him. Becky's lips trembled and the tears came to her eyes; she hid these signs with a forced gayety and went on chattering, but the life had gone out of the pic-nic, now, and out of everything else; she got away as soon as she could and hid herself and had what her sex call "a good cry." Then she sat moody, with wounded pride till the bell rang. She roused up, now, with a vindictive cast in her eye, and gave her plaited tails a shake and said she knew what she'd do. At recess Tom continued his flirtation with Amy with jubilant self-satisfaction. And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the performance. At last he spied her, but there was a sudden falling of his m____ (2 or 3 syllables; it's metaphorical and comes from an ancient proper noun). She was sitting cosily on a little bench behind the school-house looking at a picture book with Alfred Temple—and so absorbed were they, and their heads so close together over the book that they did not seem to be conscious of anything in the world besides. Jealousy ran red hot through Tom's veins. He began to hate himself for throwing away the chance Becky had offered for a reconciliation. He called himself a fool, and all the hard names he could think of. He wanted to cry with vexation. Amy chatted happily along, as they walked, for her heart was singing, but Tom's tongue had lost its f____ (2-syllable Latinate; has to do with speaking). He did not hear what Amy was saying, and whenever she paused expectantly he could only stammer an awkward assent, which was as often misplaced as o____ (3-syllable Germanic). He kept drifting to the rear of the school-house, again and again, to sear his eye-balls with the hateful spectacle there. He could not help it. And it maddened him to see, as he thought he saw, that Becky Thatcher never once suspected that he was even in the land of the living. But she did see, nevertheless; and she knew she was winning her fight, too, and was glad to see him suffer as she had suffered.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 1, 2024 23:32:23 GMT
its facund
Not sure that's a word, but it could be.
as outlandish
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Post by kizolk on Feb 1, 2024 23:33:59 GMT
No, it's something more objective. "Not" remains your best guess. It was really the right meaning in this context, and with no particular connotation added.
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Post by Pacifica on Feb 1, 2024 23:42:24 GMT
as otherwise
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