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I was delighted to hear the podcast of this episode. My mother used to use "snigglefritz" (note the strong "g" sound) as a term of endearment. Her family was from New Jersey, and the family used odd Yiddish or German terms that I never heard elsewhere. Another besides "snigglefritz" was "sitzfleich." I was told that I "had no sitzfleisch" when I was restless.
Get the show via podcast. Listening to the re-broadcast of you 27-Feb. show when you thought that Zootomy needs to be in a Limerick.
So here it is:
There once was a maiden Pottawatomi
Who was as single as she ought to be
When mashed up in bars
By young randy tars
Would practice mental Zootomy
(punctuate it as it should be – not my strong suit)
Hi.
I listen to the show on podcast and have a comment about "suffonsified". In the show reference is made to the word being used in Canada.
I was born, raised and lived in the province of Ontario, Canada. Other than on this episode I have never heard this word.
I've checked two dictionaries published by Oxford and checked online sources. The only online source that gives a definition is Wiktionary which gives the derivation as follows:
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
Possibly a blend of sufficient + fancified.[1]
[edit]Verb
suffonsify (third-person singular simple present suffonsifies, present participle suffonsifying, simple past and past participle suffonsified)
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