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What is the origin of "You betcha"?
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What is the origin of "You betcha"?
My guess would be that it is a shortening of "you betcher ___________(fill in the blank, life, bippie, whatever)" which would be a careless pronunciation of "you bet your ___________"
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Dear Faldage,
That explanation would have never occurred to me.
What about Gotcha! then? Does that follow suit? No, I suppose it doesn't. It's just a simple, "Got you!"
I wonder what "Stotcha!" might mean?
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Does Gotcha! follow suit? No, I suppose it doesn't.
I suppose you suppose correctly.
"Stotcha!" is what the cheetah says to the gemsbok.
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Cute, Faldage, very cute.
Or to that tiny antelope, the dikdik, but I don't know whether the dikdik stots or not.
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The Archie & Mehitabel books Hymie Verick! were made into a musical, which has a song where the two lead characters call themselves Flotsam and Jetsam on the sea of life -- anbd use the like construction:
Flotsam! If you want flotsam we gottsom!
Jetsam! If we don't gotsom we'll gettsom!
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Always wondered what a bippie was - as in "you betcha sweet bippie". Thought I'd seen it spelt "bippee"??
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Always wondered what a bippie was - as in "you betcha sweet bippie". Thought I'd seen it spelt "bippee"??I never saw it spelled before, only heard it on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In". But always wondered where my bippie (bippee?) is (was?). I'm sooooooo confused!
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I personally have always been of the opinion that "bippie" ought to be a plural noun.
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according to one online source, "bippy" is prison slang for a small paper cone of cleaning powder used for scouring cells. but one wonders if this lends itself to "you bet your sweet bippy" and the like.
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