Origin of Kibosh: Routledge Studies in Etymology

ISBN-13: 9780367597931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Gerald Cohen; Stephen Goranson; Matthew Little

Opis

This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language. This monograph is one of the most significant etymological works directed at a single phrase.

Spis treści

CHAPTER 1: Overview

CHAPTER 2: Introduction: ‘Origin unknown’; previous works; chronology

CHAPTER 3: Penal Servitude! continued

CHAPTER 4: Spread of put the kibosh on from Cockney

CHAPTER 5: Kibosh in several newspaper accounts

CHAPTER 6: Additional attestations of kibosh

CHAPTER 7: Three competing etymologies are unconvincing

CHAPTER 8: General observations

APPENDICES

Appendix #1: Anatoly Liberman’s 2013 article ‘Three Recent

Theories of Kibosh, continued’ (Aug. 14, 2013)

Appendix #2: kibosh-from-kurbash etymology, evidently first

Proposed by Matthew Little (Nov. 2009)

Appendix #3: Several newspaper items about chimney sweeps

Appendix #4: Political complexities in Britain of the early 1830s

Appendix #5: Notes & Queries items on a Yiddish origin of

kibosh/kybosh

Appendix #6: Two pictures illustrating use of the kurbash

REFERENCES

INDEX

O autorze

Gerald Cohen is Professor of German and Russian, with a research specialty in etymology, at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA.

Stephen Goranson works in the library of Duke University, where he also earned a doctorate.

Matthew Little is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University.