Thingamajack was Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #430 - 20 msgs

[Susan Fox-Davis]

> > I can't quite shake loose the feeling that 'jack'
> > might have been the Middle English equivalent of
> > 'thingamajig', given just how many things I've
> > heard it describe (tankards made of leather,
> > nonmetallic brigantine armor, a wooden block to
> > support stuff, a sailmakers tool...)
> >
> > Giano

Heh.  I'm telling my father you said that.  Of course, his name is Jack, why
else?

Selene, Caid