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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Catch'd in a wood #24803 03/26/2001 3:34 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Catch'd in a Wood: Songs from the Nunnery #24804 03/26/2001 4:57 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear inselpeter: I think your "fir below" in the first line is a mondegreen for "furbelow" meaning (not pubic hair, please!!!!!) but a ribbon or other ornament. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Catch'd in a Wood: Songs from the Nunnery #24805 03/26/2001 6:16 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City As corrected by Bill, with thanks One of the many rounds my mother taught us as children was this [Elizabethan] one: Adam catch'd Eve by the furbelow (2x) And that's the oldest catch I know (3x) Oh ho! Did he so? Did he so, did he so? (3x) Recently my sister and I realized it could be rendered this way: Adam catch'd Eve by the fur below And that's the oldest catch I know Oh, ho! Did he sew? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,373 Members9,209 Most Online7,006 Mar 7th, 2026 Newest Members Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery 9,209 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 35 A C Bowden 14 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,202 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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