Re: [TML] "He's my Caber" sounds cool & exotic...
Jeffrey Schwartz 18 Apr 2017 15:07 UTC
Oh!
Picturing "I'm your Caber" got me thinking.
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http://home.earthlink.net/~knuthco1/Itemsofinterest1/huckleberrysource.htm
"Dictionary of American Slang: Second Supplemented Edition" (Crowell, 1975):
"A man; specif., the exact kind of man needed for a particular
purpose. 1936: "Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr. Haney." Tully,
"Bruiser," 37. Since 1880, archaic.
The "Historical Dictionary of American Slang" which is a multivolume
work, has about a third of a column of citations documenting this
meaning all through the latter 19th century.
So "I'm your huckleberry" means "I'm just the man you're looking for!"
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list)
<xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> You know I like the idea of this character so much I'm going to use'm as an NPC.
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> "Who's that?"
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> "That's the/my/his Caber!"
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> "What?"
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> thanks,
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