If you’re looking for a little nanty narking, try going back to the 19th century and having a great time, because that’s a jaunty term the British used for it back then. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Nanty Narking”
Here’s a bit of slang from the 19th century that i don’t know would work today it’s nanty
Narking nanty narking nanty i don’t know yeah complaining about nothing that’s pretty good it’s
Not exactly.
What is it?
Tell me.
Well, nantinarking is great fun.
Oh, that was nantinarking.
And you can spell it N-A-N-T-Y or N-A-N-T-E.
So my definition wasn’t anything like that.
Why did you say?
Well, no, because lexicographer Jonathan Green has done some research on this and found that this is probably an old sense of nark, meaning to annoy.
And the nanty, as you suggested, is nothing like Italian niente.
And also in French.
Yeah.
You’re right.
So it’s nothing annoying.
Which means great fun.
I see the absence of annoying things.
Exactly.
Got you.
Exactly.
This show is nanty-narking.
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