My sufficiency has been suffonsified is just one version of a playfully lofty way to say “I’ve had enough to eat.” Janet from San Antonio, Texas, emailed to say her Canadian mother’s version was My sufficiency has been suffonsified, and any more would be flippity flop. Her uncle’s rendition was even longer: I have had sufficiency of all the numerous delicacies offered. Any more would be a superfluity. Gastronomical science admonishes me that I have reached a point consistent with dietetical economy. In other words, any more would be flippity flop. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Any More Would be a Flippity Flop”
We heard from Janet Hayes in San Antonio, Texas, who was talking about an expression that we’ve discussed before, which is, has your sufficiency been suffonsified?
It’s something that people say after dinner, you know, have you had enough to eat?
And there are different versions of this.
But she shared a couple of versions that I’ve never seen before.
She says her mother’s short version was, my sufficiency has been suffonsified, and any more would be flippity-flop.
And her… I really like the mixture of registers there.
And then her uncle’s longer version is, I’ve had sufficiency of all the numerous delicacies offered.
Any more would be a superfluity.
Astronomical science admonishes me that I have reached a point consistent with dietetical economy.
In other words, any more would be flippity-flop.
The last part, I’m like, where? What? Flippity-flop? What does that mean? Why?
But there’s no ask in English why. It just is.
It just is.
We do our best week after week to explain why.
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