oojah capivvy
名词 n.
英 /ˌuːdʒɑː kəˈpɪvi/
美 /ˌudʒə kəˈpɪvi/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Something that one cannot name or does not know the name of; a whatsit.
— Birkinshaw: I suppose you ’aven’t time to help me with the post, have you? I’d like to get off to time to-night. Pat: All right. Birkinshaw: There’s a whole lot in the Oojah Capivvy now. If you’d just take ’em and fold ’em and stick ’em in the envelopes, and bung ’em across to me, I’ll enter ’em up.
词源
Unknown. Perhaps from Urdu ḥujjat kāfī fīhi (“argument is sufficient”); compare oojah. Sornig (see quotations below) suggests derivation from Neapolitan agio capit (“I've understood”), but seems to be alone in this suggestion. Attested from the 1910s, often described as soldiers’ or sailors’ slang.
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