Oops, sorry -- see Peter got here before me.
A Dormouse Who Should Read All the Posts in a Thread Before He Posts
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shore Poets" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: help!-----lost word
> This isn't just a spelling question, is it Patrick?
>
> [Spoken form of Deolali (Marashtra, India) + TAP n.4]
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> In full doolally tap. Characterized by an unbalanced state of mind.
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> 1925 FRASER & GIBBONS Soldier & Sailor Words 75 Deolali tap (otherwise
> doolally tap), mad, off one's head. Old Army. 1936 J. CURTIS Gilt Kid vii.
> 76 What's the matter with that bloke? Doolally? Ibid. xviii. 181 'What's
> up
> with you for Christ's sake, kid? Come doolally tap?' Scaley was getting
> worried... His pal seemed to have gone mad. 1936 F. RICHARDS Old-Soldier
> Sahib iv. 74 Time-expired men sent to Deolalie from their different units
> might have to wait for months before a troop-ship fetched them home... The
> well-known saying among soldiers when speaking of a man who does queer
> things, 'Oh, he's got the Doo-lally tap,' originated, I think, in the
> peculiar way men behaved owing to the boredom of that camp. 1943 HUNT &
> PRINGLE Service Slang 28 Doolally, very drunk or temporarily insane,
> without
> distinction.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
>> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Patrick McManus
>> Sent: 15 December 2005 18:39
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: help!-----lost word
>>
>> Deborah thanks for trying comes close not in OED perhaps
>> slang perhaps the doormouse would know P dullally P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
>> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of deborah russell
>> Sent: 15 December 2005 18:01
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: help!-----lost word
>>
>> Would that be duh-Lilly, as in John C. Lilly?
>>
>> >All you worsmitheys
>> >
>> >Isn't there a word for decrepit dotage senile -sounding
>> like' dilally'
>> >
>> >For my autobiography:-)
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>> >
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>> >P desperate P
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