Teary turty Taubling

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  • teary: tearful, pathetic
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  • Täublein: (German) little dove → Issy
  • taub: (German) deaf → in FW Swift is often described as being deaf-and-dumb → see tum in the previous line
  • tauftauf → an echo of tauftauf (FW 003.10), from German taufen: to baptise
  • tauba: (German) dove - could be a turtle dove