Hallo! I`m just seeking some help in writing my postgraduate report! And i`d greatly appreciate if you could spare a minute and say what associations you have with the following words:
hully gully
jitterbug
boogie
paradiddle
pataflafla
swiss kick
chuchutta
jive
flim flam tap
Do these words bear positive or negative meaning? how would you use them in broader context?
THANX A LOT
Re: "Hallo! I`m just seeking some help in writing my postgraduate report! And i`d greatly appreciate if you could spare a minute and say what associations you have with the following words:"
"Postgraduate report"? What do you mean?
hully gully---unfamiliar (to me)
jitterbug--thirties dance to swing music, sometimes extravagant, the man hurling his partner into the air
boogie--half of boogie-woogie, a blues piano style; in the early seventies (several decades later), dancing to rock music or copulating
paradiddle--a drum rudiment
pataflafla--unfamiliar
swiss kick--unfamiliar
chuchutta--unfamiliar
jive--to put someone on, later black American slang patois
flim flam tap--a flam is a drum rudiment; a flim-flam man is a swindler.
Re: "Do these words bear positive or negative meaning?"
The terms "positive meaning" and "negative meaning" are meaningless to me. Do you mean, "Are any of the terms pejorative?" The first sense I proffered of "jive" can be, depending on the context, and so can "flim-flam man", the latter tending to be tempered with grudging affection.
Re: "how would you use them in broader context?"
Broader than what? You don`t seem to have provided any context at all.
What is "Postgraduate report"? Well, this is something I am working at right now...
As for the context, I meant to get a couple of sentences where these words can be used (either positively or negatively). And I am interested in sentences with "jive" and "flim-flam man".
Re: "What is `Postgraduate report`? Well, this is something I am working at right now..."
For some sort of degree?
Re: "As for the context, I meant to get a couple of sentences where these words can be used (either positively or negatively). And I am interested in sentences with `jive` and `flim-flam man`".
I still don`t get "positively" and "negatively" in respect to words. I never heard an actual flesh-and-blood person say "flim-flam man", but I did see a movie called "Flim Flam Man" once in my extreme youth, and there is a Laura Nyro song on her fist album, "First Songs" called "Flim Flam Man". The way Nyro`s song describes him he`s more or less like the character Robert Preston plays in "The Music Man" or the character Clark Gable plays in "Test Pilot".
I just asked the girl standing in front of me to use "jive" in a sentence. She said, "What are you doing tonight? Let`s jive downtown." She`s apparently had several beers. Frank Zappa sings, "Who you jivin` with that cosmic debris?" on "Apostrophe".
THANX A LOT for all your answers in all the posts!
Yup, I am writing the report for some kind of degree. That`s why I`m looking for all those terms.
Of course, it is easier to get that dictionary if you attend a music school. But the fact is that I do not have that opportunity as I live in another country, and we do not have good authentic books (especially in music schools). Thanks for your help anyway.
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