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| − | * | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0059&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] |
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| − | * ''' | + | * '''wifey, wifie:''' pet names for one's wife → '''addle liddle phifie''' = ''had a little wifey'' |
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| + | * '''addle liddle phifie:''' [[ALP]], a recurring initialism for Anna Livia Plurabelle | ||
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| + | * '''Fifi:''' petname for Josephine → Napoleon Bonaparte's Joséphine? | ||
| + | ** [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] | ||
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| + | * '''fife:''' a small, high-pitched flute used to accompany drums in a military marching band → particularly associated with Protestant marching bands in Ulster | ||
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| + | * '''phi:''' the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet, commonly used to denote the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_%28waves%29 phase of a wave] in physics; the diameter of a circle in geometry | ||
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| + | * '''fie:''' an expression of distaste or disapproval | ||
| + | * '''Pfeife''' (german) pipe | ||
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| + | *'''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 | ||
Latest revision as of 11:18, 13 April 2010
- wife → wyfie → phifie
- 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
