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* '''Fifi:''' petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine? | * '''Fifi:''' petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine? | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0236&isize=L 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 04:05, 11 April 2010
- 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
- Fifi: petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine?
- 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
- Pfeife (german) pipe
- Piffle: nonsense or jibberish, hence, addle (confuse) little (no consequnece) and pifle (nonsense). No doubt the characterising the three occupants of The Tub: the Catholic, the Anglican and the Presbyterian
