"from Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"". Plain Hobnobs are made at the Tollcross factory in Glasgow. The chocolate variety is made at the Harlesden factory. The basic ingredients for Hobnobs are oats. The original tagline of the Hobnobs was ""one nibble and you're nobbled"", and was removed. It has since been brought back, but slightly changed by adding ""hob"" to the beginning of the last word. The tagline ""Chocolate now has Hobnobs underneath"" was used for the introduction in the UK of chocolate Hobnobs. Hobnob biscuit Hobnobs is the brand name of a commercial biscuit. They are made from rolled oats and"
"however rejected by Sheidlower. Slang dictionaries of past centuries give a term ""hip"" or ""hyp"" meaning melancholy or bored, shortened from the word ""hypochondriac"". However, this usage, more prevalent around 1800, was virtually extinct by 1900. The word ""hip"" in the sense of ""aware, in the know"" is first attested in a 1902 cartoon by Tad Dorgan, and first appeared in print in a 1904 novel by George Vere Hobart, ""Jim Hickey, A Story of the One-Night Stands"", where an African American character uses the slang phrase ""Are you hip?"". Early currency of the term (as the past participle ""hipped"","
"Stanley Unwin (comedian) Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was an English comedian, actor and comic writer. He invented his own comic language, ""Unwinese"", referred to in the film ""Carry On Regardless"" (1961) as ""gobbledygook"". Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being ""wasp-waist and swivel-hippy"". Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had ""falolloped"
"origins are unknown. The word ""hip"" in the sense of ""aware, in the know"" is first attested in a 1902 cartoon by Tad Dorgan, and first appeared in prose in a 1904 novel by George Vere Hobart (1867–1926), ""Jim Hickey: A Story of the One-Night Stands"", where an African-American character uses the slang phrase ""Are you hip?"" The term ""hipster"" was coined by Harry Gibson in 1944. By the 1940s, the terms ""hip"", ""hep"" and ""hepcat"" were popular in Harlem jazz slang, although ""hep"" eventually came to denote an inferior status to ""hip"". In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s,"
"back to West Africa. He claimed that ""hipi"" (a word in the Wolof language meaning ""to open one's eyes"") was the source for both ""hip"" and ""hep"". Sheidlower, however, disputes Dalby's assertion that the term ""hip"" comes from Wolof origins. During the jive era of the late 1930s and early 1940s, African-Americans began to use the term ""hip"" to mean ""sophisticated, fashionable and fully up-to-date"". Harry Gibson added the term ""the Hipster"" to his Harlem stage act in 1944, and in his later autobiography, says he coined it for that purpose. In the 1970s, Gibson remade his act to appeal"
"to draw angry kids out of gangs and form the Universal Zulu Nation. Robert Keith Wiggins, a.k.a. ""Cowboy"" of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, is credited with naming hip-hop; the term became a common phrase used by MCs as part of a scat-inspired style of rhyming. In the documentary film ""Just to Get a Rep"", writer Steven Hager claims that the first time ""hip-hop"" was used in print was in his ""Village Voice"" article where he was quoting Bambaataa, who had called the culture ""hip-hop"" in an interview. In 1982, Bambaataa and his followers - a group of dancers,"
"""Lollipop"" Sanchez, jazz dancer Dallace Ziegler, Choreographer Bill Goodson, and many others, exposing the dance throughout numerous high-profile TV, stage and screen productions and appearances. As the dance grew popular among those outside of the collective and gay clubs, the dance began to be referred to exclusively as Whacking to avoid the negative connotation associatied with the word Punk. Adolfo ""Shabba Doo"" Quinones, was among one of the notable ""straight"" dancers who learned from the creators of the style and created his own style based out of blending it with locking, soul dance, salsa, and martial arts adopting the character"
"Fop Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are ""coxcomb"", ""fribble"", ""popinjay"" (meaning 'parrot'), ""fashion-monger"", and ""ninny"". ""Macaroni"" was another term, of the 18th century, more specifically concerned with fashion. A modern-day fop may also be a reference to a foolish person who is excessively concerned about his clothing, luxuries, minor details, refined language and leisurely hobbies. He is generally incapable of engaging in conversations, activities or thoughts without the idealism of aesthetics or pleasures. The word ""fop"" is first recorded"
"Mad Libs Mad Libs is a phrasal template word game where one player prompts others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the – often comical or nonsensical – story aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or as a pastime. The game was invented in the United States, and more than 110 million copies of ""Mad Libs"" books have been sold since the series was first published in 1958. Mad Libs was invented in 1953 by Leonard Stern and Roger Price. Stern and Price co-created the game, but could"
"and Art Blakey. The term ""bebop"" is derived from nonsense syllables (vocables) used in scat singing; the first known example of ""bebop"" being used was in McKinney's Cotton Pickers' ""Four or Five Times"", recorded in 1928. It appears again in a 1936 recording of ""I'se a Muggin'"" by Jack Teagarden. A variation, ""rebop"", appears in several 1939 recordings. The first, known print appearance also occurred in 1939, but the term was little-used subsequently until applied to the music now associated with it in the mid-1940s. Thelonious Monk claims that the original title ""Bip Bop"" for his tune ""52nd Street Theme"","
"Hobbit (word) The invention of the word hobbit is traditionally ascribed to J. R. R. Tolkien, whose ""The Hobbit"" was first published in 1937. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" since the 1970s has credited Tolkien with the invention of the word. Since then, however, it has been noted that there is prior evidence of the word, in a 19th-century list of legendary creatures. In 1971, Tolkien stated that he remembered making up the word himself, admitting that there was nothing but his ""nude parole"" to support the claim that he was uninfluenced by similar words of the hobgoblin family. By Tolkien's"
"in the BBC Scotland TV programme ""The Secret Life of Midges"" that the English commander-in-chief during the Jacobite rising of 1745, General Wade, misheard the local Scots Gaelic word for midge—""meanbh-chuileag""—and coined the word ""hooligan"" to describe his fury and frustration at the way the tiny biting creatures made the life of his soldiers and himself a misery; this derivation may be apocryphal. The word first appeared in print in London police-court reports in 1894 referring to the name of a gang of youths in the Lambeth area of London—the ""Hooligan Boys"", and later—the ""O'Hooligan Boys"". In August 1898 the"
"groups such as Migos, Travis Scott, and Kodak Black. In the 1950's, parties were sometimes referred to as ""hippity hops"" . The creation of the term ""hip hop"" is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was still known as ""disco rap"". It is believed that Cowboy created the term while teasing a friend who had just joined the U.S. Army, by scat singing the words ""hip/hop/hip/hop"" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of soldiers marching. Cowboy later"
"University, where he studied Chinese language. He returned to Los Angeles after the war. Sloan became a columnist for the ""Hollywood Citizen News"" and a reporter for several magazines covering Hollywood's entertainment and gossip industries. Sloan's connections led to a career transition as a press agent and publicist representing Carol Channing, Mae West, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. In 1958, television writer Leonard B. Stern and comedian Roger Price launched ""Mad Libs"", a word game book series which the duo had first invented in 1953. Stern and Price had named the game ""Mad Libs"" after overhearing an argument between an"
"significant influence on the two books written by John Lennon: ""In His Own Write"" (1964) and ""A Spaniard in the Works"" (1965). Stanley Unwin (comedian) Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was an English comedian, actor and comic writer. He invented his own comic language, ""Unwinese"", referred to in the film ""Carry On Regardless"" (1961) as ""gobbledygook"". Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being ""wasp-waist and"
"include double whammy, skunk works and Lower Slobbovia. The term shmoo has also entered the lexicon — used in defining highly technical concepts in no fewer than ""four"" separate fields of science. Capp has also been credited with popularizing many terms, such as ""natcherly,"" schmooze, druthers, and nogoodnik, neatnik, etc. (In his book ""The American Language"", H.L. Mencken credits the postwar mania for adding ""-nik"" to the ends of adjectives to create nouns as beginning — not with beatnik or Sputnik, but earlier — in the pages of ""Li'l Abner"".) In the late 1940s, newspaper syndicates typically owned the copyrights,"
"Humbug A humbug is a person or object that behaves in a deceptive or dishonest way, often as a hoax or in jest. The term was first described in 1751 as student slang, and recorded in 1840 as a ""nautical phrase"". It is now also often used as an exclamation to mean nonsense or gibberish. When referring to a person, a humbug means a fraud or impostor, implying an element of unjustified publicity and spectacle. In modern usage, the word is most associated with the character Ebenezer Scrooge, created by Charles Dickens in his novella ""A Christmas Carol"". His famous"
"touring, in a special effects company. According to Drakulich (who answered this question on Bohab Central, a prominent Gwar fansite, on January 13, 2007), the term ""bohab"" was, in part, invented by Varga - initially, it was a nickname for a socially inept friend of Hunter Jackson's (named Bob), invented by Dave Musel; after hearing him say this (he was in the room when this happened), ""He instantly shortened it by getting rid of the Slohab then coined as part of the Slave-Pit lexicon to refer to anyone who is socially awkward, who drones on about trivial matters while boring"
"word ""hobbit"" as a speculative derivation from Old English when he began writing ""The Hobbit"" (it was revealed years after his death that the word predated Tolkien's usage, though with a different meaning). Tolkien's concept of hobbits, in turn, seems to have been inspired by Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 children's book ""The Marvellous Land of Snergs"", and by Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel ""Babbitt"". The Snergs were, in Tolkien's words, ""a race of people only slightly taller than the average table but broad in the shoulders and have the strength of ten men."" Tolkien wrote to W. H. Auden that ""The"
"and high-heeled boots. Fop Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are ""coxcomb"", ""fribble"", ""popinjay"" (meaning 'parrot'), ""fashion-monger"", and ""ninny"". ""Macaroni"" was another term, of the 18th century, more specifically concerned with fashion. A modern-day fop may also be a reference to a foolish person who is excessively concerned about his clothing, luxuries, minor details, refined language and leisurely hobbies. He is generally incapable of engaging in conversations, activities or thoughts without the idealism of aesthetics or pleasures. The word ""fop"""
"Frederick Burr Opper Frederick Burr Opper (January 2, 1857 – August 28, 1937) is regarded as one of the pioneers of American newspaper comic strips, best known for his comic strip ""Happy Hooligan"". His comic characters were featured in magazine gag cartoons, covers, political cartoons and comic strips for six decades. Born to Austrian-American immigrants Lewis and Aurelia Burr Oppers in Madison, Ohio, Frederick was the eldest of three children. At the age of 14, he dropped out of public school to work as a printer's apprentice at the local ""Madison Gazette"", and at 16, he moved to New York"
"hobbledehoy, hobble, hobi, hobyn (small horse), hobby horse (perhaps from Hobin), Hobin (variant of the name Robin), Hobby (nickname for Robert), hobyah, Hob Lantern. In William Shakespeare's play ""King Lear"", (iv, i, 60), mention is made of ""Hobbididence, prince of dumbness"" in a list of diverse fiends, whose names Shakespeare borrowed from Samuel Harsnett's ""Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures"" (1603). The only source known today that makes reference to hobbits in any sort of historical context is the ""Denham Tracts"" by Michael Aislabie Denham. More specifically, it appears in the ""Denham Tracts"", edited by James Hardy, (London: Folklore Society, 1895),"
"the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", the first recorded use of ""malapropos"" in English is from 1630, and the first person known to have used the word ""malaprop"" in the sense of ""a speech error"" is Lord Byron in 1814. The synonymous term ""Dogberryism"" comes from the 1598 Shakespeare play ""Much Ado About Nothing"" in which the character Dogberry utters many malapropisms to humorous effect. Though Shakespeare was an earlier writer than Sheridan, ""malaprop/malapropism"" seems an earlier coinage than ""Dogberryism"", which is not attested until 1836. An instance of speech error is called a malapropism when a word is produced which is"
"Lovebug Starski Kevin Smith (May 16, 1960 – February 8, 2018), best known by his stage name Lovebug Starski, was an American MC, musician, and record producer. He began his career as a record boy in 1971 as hip-hop first appeared in the Bronx, and he eventually became a DJ at the Disco Fever club in 1978. He is one of two people who may have come up with the term ""hip-hop"". Starski claimed that he coined the phrase while trading the two words back and forth while improvising lines with Cowboy of the Furious Five at a farewell party"
"Hoodlum A hoodlum is a thug, usually in a group of misfits who are associated with crime or theft. The earliest reference to the word hoodlum was in the December 14, 1866, ""San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin"" after the Hoodlum Band was arrested on December 13, 1866. Members of the gang were sentenced to the Industrial School for stealing clothes. The gang used many keys to enter hotel rooms and boarding houses. On December 14, 1866, Lazarus Moses was arrested for selling clothes stolen by the Hoodlum Band. Moses was fined $300. Moses's nickname was ""Fagin"". The public read about"
"Runcible ""Runcible"" is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears (as an adjective) several times in his works, most famously as the ""runcible spoon"" used by the Owl and the Pussycat. The word ""runcible"" was apparently one of Lear's favourite inventions, appearing in several of his works in reference to a number of different objects. In his verse self-portrait, ""The Self-Portrait of the Laureate of Nonsense"", it is noted that ""he weareth a runcible hat"". Other poems include mention of a ""runcible cat"", a ""runcible goose"" (in the sense of ""silly person""), and a ""runcible wall"". Edward"
"style of R&B called shuffle. The four musicians, including the white teenage girl, went into the studio and recorded the song in one take. Barbie Gaye was paid $200 for her writing contributions to ""My Boy Lollypop"" and her studio recording. The shuffle sound was developed in the early 1940s in America's black community and made popular by Professor Longhair, Rosco Gordon and Louis Jordan. Legendary Jamaican artists, Clement ""Coxsone"" Dodd and Arthur ""Duke"" Reid, introduced the R&B shuffle beat to Jamaica in the late 1950s. Over the next few years, the sound grew in popularity and evolved into ""ska,"""
"term derives from the practice of lying on one's hip while smoking opium. The ultimate meaning of ""hip"", attested as early as 1902, is ""aware"" or ""in the know"". Conversely, the antonym ""unhip"" connotes those who are unaware of their surroundings, also including those who are opposed to hipness. Nevertheless, ""hip"" eventually acquired the common English suffix ""-ster"" (as in ""spinster"" and ""gangster""), and ""hipster"" entered the language. The first dictionary to list the word is the short glossary ""For Characters Who Don't Dig Jive Talk"", which was included with Harry Gibson's 1944 album, ""Boogie Woogie In Blue"". The entry"
"early version of what today is known as Scrabble. He appears to have invented – or at least certainly popularized – the ""doublet"" (see word ladder), a form of brain-teaser that is still popular today, changing one word into another by altering one letter at a time, each successive change always resulting in a genuine word. For instance, CAT is transformed into DOG by the following steps: CAT, COT, DOT, DOG. The games and puzzles of Lewis Carroll were the subject of Martin Gardner's March 1960 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. Other items include a rule for finding the"
"Neil Swaab Neil Swaab (born 2 January 1978 in Detroit, Michigan) is a New York based artist, designer, writer, and educator. His illustrations and comics have appeared in numerous publications in the US as well as abroad in Germany, Prague, and Italy and Russia. Swaab's most famous work is ""Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles"", which deals with a pill-popping, foul-mouthed teddy bear. The comics frequently deal with sex, addiction, intoxication, psychosis, molestation, cross-dressing, self-hate and misanthropy. This weekly comic strip currently runs online as well as in The New York Press, Real Detroit Weekly, Internazionale (in Italian), and New Times Broward-Palm Beach."
"pajamas"" (as superlatives); ""applesauce"" (nonsense); ""cheaters"" (eyeglasses); ""skimmer"" (a hat); ""hard-boiled"" (tough and unsentimental); ""drugstore cowboy"" (loafers or ladies' men); ""nickel-nurser"" (a miser); ""as busy as a one-armed paperhanger"" (overworked); and ""Yes, we have no bananas,"" which was turned into a popular song. In the ""New York Times"" obituary, he was bracketed with George Ade and Ring Lardner as a popularizer of ""a new slang vernacular."" His obituary also credited him as the originator of ""Twenty-three, Skidoo,"" ""solid ivory,"" ""Dumb Dora,"" ""finale hopper,"" ""Benny"" for hat, and ""dogs'"" for shoes. W. J. Funk, of the Funk and Wagnall's dictionary company,"
"Fables"", which were parodies of classic literary fables (with titles like ""Goldilocks and the Three Bares"" and ""Liddle Blue Ridink Hood""), but with a darkly sardonic twist. Liddle Noodnik, a local waif, was frequently employed to recite a farcical poem of greeting to visiting dignitaries, or sing the absurd Slobbovian national anthem: Lower Slobbovia Lower Slobbovia (also sometimes called Outer, Inner, Central, Upper or Lowest Slobbovia) is a term used in conversation to denote a place which is underdeveloped, socially backward, remote, impoverished or unenlightened. First coined by Al Capp in 1946, the term has also been used by Americans"
"junior member of Hip society, who may know the words, but hasn't fully assimilated the proper attitude."" It also defines ""hippie-dip"" as ""Derogatory word for hippy."" A syndicated newspaper column from 1960 said ""Bobby Darin, a hippie from New York City, Tonsil No. 1, in the ""New Noise"" sweeping America, completely conquered all the New York hippies."" Ground-breaking comic host Steve Allen thought that he was ""the first to turn the adjective 'hip' into the noun 'hippie' . . . about 1960"". In a 1961 essay, Kenneth Rexroth of San Francisco used both the terms ""hipster"" and ""hippies"" to refer"