[lit-ideas] Re: Hereabouts

From: "Donal McEvoy" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "donalmcevoyuk" for DMARC)
To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:50:33 +0000 (UTC)

For some reason the meaning alluded to in my post seems omitted by the OED;
trump as in 'fart' - as in "I just trumped".
This reminds me of a schoolboy encounter with the dictionary where we homed in
on such words and the definition given was - "Fart: A small explosion between
the legs".
D

From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, 24 October 2016, 18:17
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Hereabouts

On Oct 24, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Donal McEvoy (Redacted sender "donalmcevoyuk" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Since everyone else in the world seems to be discussing Trump, I thought I’d
try the name out.>

If you try out several plates of beans, you may find yourself trumping for
hours to come.

I thought, where’s the connection between trumpeting and Trump?  So I looked it
up:

   - trump (n.1)
      - "playing card of a suit ranking above others," 1520s, alteration of
triumph (n.), which also was the name of a card game.
   - trump (v.2)
      - "fabricate, devise," 1690s, from trump "deceive, cheat" (1510s), from
Middle English trumpen (late 14c.), from Old French tromper "to deceive," of
uncertain origin. Apparently from se tromper de "to mock," from Old French
tromper "to blow a trumpet." Brachet explains this as "to play the horn,
alluding to quacks and mountebanks, who attracted the public by blowing a horn,
and then cheated them into buying ...." The Hindley Old French dictionary has
baillier la trompe "blow the trumpet" as "act the fool," and Donkin connects it
rather to trombe "waterspout," on the notion of turning (someone) around.
Connection with triumph also has been proposed. Related: Trumped; trumping.
Trumped up "false, concocted" first recorded 1728.
   - trump (n.2)
      - "trumpet," c. 1300, from Old French trompe "long, tube-like musical
wind instrument" (12c.), cognate with Provençal tromba, Italian tromba, all
probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German trumpa, Old Norse
trumba "trumpet"), of imitative origin.
   - trump (v.1)
      - "surpass, beat," 1580s, from trump (n.). Related: Trumped; trumping.

Now I know.

David Ritchie,Ruffing his trumps inPortland, Oregon

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