fool
→
puffin
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | tomnoddy | |
| meaning 1 | fool | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | puffin | |
| reference | OED | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Motivation | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme 1 | pulcinella | |
| lexeme 2 | pulcinella di mare | |
| meaning 1 | person who cannot behave seriously; a buffoon, a fool | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | puffin | Un esemplare di pulcinella di mare sulla penisola Látrabjarg |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Scots | |
| lexeme | tammie norrie | |
| meaning 1 | stupid-looking, bashful man | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | puffin | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | 1896, Andrew Cheviot, Proverbs, proverbial expressions, and popular rhymes of Scotland, page 310 Thesaurus of traditional English metaphors, by Peter Richard Wilkinson, page 346 |
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