SC - Pig's Ears

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- --- "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Angus wrote:
> 
> > >>The proper spelling is codswallop.  >
> > >>Bear
> > >>
> > >> > Codswhallop.
> > >
> > >> > Gunthar
> > >
> > I'm almost afraid to ask....but as a person with
> another language other than english as my native
> one, what's the origin of this word ?  Couldn't find
> it any dictionary/idiomatic (idiomacy?) book in my
> bookshelf.
> > /Angus, whose native language is the language of
> heroes aka Swedish.
> 
> I just looked in the OED in the dining room. It's
> not in there. So
> perhaps arguing over spelling is futile. You could
> spell it
> throatwarblermangrove if you like, and it could be
> from the Swahili. The
> OED don't say.
> 
> 'Lainie

But Webster's does have it.

cods·wal·lop \ 'kädz-,wäl-ep \ n [origin unknown]
Brit. : nonsense {e really should be a schwa, but I
don't have one}

Huette

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