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Could you give us an example in context, Father?
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Whence cometh "hairy Percy," as used by Bertie Wooster?
It's been a long time, and I don't recall coming across that particular phrase, but I'll hazard a guess that it was some kind of Anglicization of a French word -- "repartee" or "apercu" or such.
Maybe we should ask Jeeves?
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Thanks to a PM, I now understand. When Bertie Wooster refers to "Hairy Percy", he is pronouncing his understanding of Jeeve's phrase "airy persiflage'.
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Oops, sorry. For a moment there I thought I was on the "-age" thread...
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