Difference between revisions of "Phifie"

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* '''wifey, wifie:''' wife → '''addle liddle phifie''' = ''had a little wifey''
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* '''wifey, wifie:''' pet names for one's wife → '''addle liddle phifie''' = ''had a little wifey''
  
* '''addle liddle phifie:''' [[ALP]], recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle
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* '''addle liddle phifie:''' [[ALP]], a recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle
  
 
* '''Fifi:''' petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine?
 
* '''Fifi:''' petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine?
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160236 Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
  
 
* '''fife:''' a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster
 
* '''fife:''' a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster

Revision as of 12:41, 18 November 2006

  • wifey, wifie: pet names for one's wife → addle liddle phifie = had a little wifey
  • addle liddle phifie: ALP, a recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle
  • fife: a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster
  • phi: the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, commonly used to denote the phase of a wave in physics; the diameter of a circle in geometry
  • fie: an expression of distaste or disapproval