Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Miscellany bunky--etymology!
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
OP This from Phrase Finder:
: The cartoon voice I’m remembering sounded like Droopy. I think. Anyway, “Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, A-G” by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994, has BUNKY, meaning “full of nonsense." 1918. It also has BUNKIE 1.a. Army & USMC, a bunkmate. 1858. b. student, a roommate. 1918. 2. Army, a friend, comrade. 1865. 3. used as a condescending term of direct address to a man. 1978, Superman 206: “Excuse me, bunkie. Don’t you have anything useful to do?
That makes sense. One of the websites I looked at after Bruce supplied the name and title said Eddie Lawrence developed the Old Philosopher routine while he was in the military. I was wondering whether bunky/bunkie was short for bunkmate.
The Old Philos. record (I guess the first one) reached #34 on the hit parade in 1956. Mr. Lawrence is now 80 years old.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted bunky--etymology! WhitmanO'Neill 03/15/02 11:30 PM Re: bunky-etymology! plutarch 03/15/02 11:35 PM Re: bunky-etymology! WhitmanO'Neill 03/15/02 11:48 PM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,397Members9,182 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV
9,182 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 579 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 28
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,576tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,922Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org