puffin
—
fool
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 | puffin | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | fool | |
| Reference | OED | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Motivation | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Lexeme 1 | pulcinella di mare | |
| Lexeme 2 | pulcinella | |
| Meaning 1 | puffin | |
| Direction | ← | |
| Meaning 2 | person who cannot behave seriously; a buffoon, a fool | |
| Reference | Vocabolario Treccani | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Scots | |
| Lexeme | tammie norrie | |
| Meaning 1 | puffin | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | stupid-looking, bashful man | |
| 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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