Dare Ye Thus

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[00:33] Try to answer an under Google bull. Oh, that was quite the build-up. That was it. That's a lot of pressure now. I
[00:39] I
[00:41] Heard you had a really good. Well, I do have a good one
[00:43] I was I was at the bar the other day and somebody used a phrase that I've heard many times before
[00:49] But I hadn't thought about in years
[00:52] And they said let's skedaddle
[00:56] Hmm, let's get out. Let's get out of here
[00:59] Make like a tree and leave. Yeah, and and that's that's how let's get out. Oh, and I went
[01:05] What the heck is the?
[01:09] The origin of that or is it come from is it a shortening of something?
[01:13] Is it I just I kind of I thought about it for a little bit and I was like I can't I got no
[01:18] I got nothing and so I'm gonna go to my
[01:22] You know my smartest friends in the world and say
[01:27] What is the origin
[01:29] and the meaning of the phrase skedaddle
[01:33] Well, the meaning you got it is
[01:35] Let's get the heck out of here fast. Yeah, I would say we're skedaddling
[01:41] How do you spell skedaddle so I'm so yeah, I spelled it in my app as
[01:47] SKEDADDLE
[01:49] I don't know if that's true
[01:51] That is also how I was gonna spell it which is sort of a strange construction or it could be
[01:57] An extra yeah. Yeah, actually. Yeah, now that I look at it. I did do to ease ski dattle
[02:02] So SKEEDADDLE is how I wrote it down
[02:08] Because otherwise it's skedaddle as opposed to skedaddle. I say skedaddle. I say skedaddle. I say skedaddle
[02:15] I say skedaddle
[02:18] Let's skedaddle
[02:21] I got nothing. What do you got with this?
[02:24] What is this? What is this? Is this uniquely?
[02:28] American is this this feels very uniquely American to me. Yeah, does this feel this other this to me is
[02:37] Automata Pia for the sound of
[02:40] cartoons when they run away
[02:43] Exactly what I was thinking of it's gotta be some kind of weird automata Pia
[02:48] Automata Pia spell that one for me Coalson. Ooh boy. I will not try
[02:54] I did wonder if it was
[02:57] Even though I spelled it the way I spelled it. I wonder if there was some connection to skiing. I
[03:04] Wonder if there was some connection to skeet shooting or to dabbling or to ski ball
[03:13] I doubt it
[03:16] ski ball is another interesting one though mmm, why is it called that but
[03:21] When do you think people started using the word skedaddle? I
[03:24] I assume this is a phrase from the
[03:29] I'm thinking like the 18
[03:32] No, no, I'm gonna go as a flapper phrase. I'm gonna go with like the 19th. That's what I'm thinking
[03:37] Yeah, I mean 20s. It's one of those things like I feel like it hit. It's like max
[03:42] Popularity and like the 50s
[03:44] Okay, it's probably from the 20s. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, so but I will say that I
[03:50] I'm there's some part of me that thinks it's like late 1800s
[03:58] some sort of
[04:00] southern phrase about
[04:04] Shooting ducks or something. Yeah, and then somehow it turns into something else. We got to get out of here quickly cuz we're
[04:13] So I could buy that I could buy that I could also buy frontiers. Yeah, you know like frontiers men
[04:20] Like we're on a horse and we're skedaddling
[04:24] Skedaddle one of my favorite words of all time is
[04:28] abscotulate
[04:29] Mmm, I don't know what that means
[04:31] It just means to like abscond. Mmm to like take off
[04:35] surreptitiously, but like the origin of the word was just like a bunch of frontiers men sound was trying to sound all smart like
[04:42] This ridiculous word to sound fancy and it's it's hilarious. I feel like skedaddle man
[04:54] Now that we're talking about it, I do feel like there's some sort of Western
[04:58] You know, it feels it feels like something a cowboy would say. Yeah, let's get out
[05:04] Let's get dad and then you hit you hit your horse on the rear and you get out of there. Yeah
[05:09] But so can we come up with them because I feel like this is a it's like one of those words do smash together
[05:16] I feel like there were multiple words
[05:18] It feels very colloquial. Is there a way that?
[05:23] That we could you know
[05:25] Dilly-daddle, I don't know. I'm trying to
[05:28] But the only thing that even kind of like fits is dawdle, but that's like the opposite right up
[05:34] So that's why we're skiing it
[05:37] Just ski dawdling ski dawdling
[05:40] Ski is kind of close to speed skied
[05:44] Speed I don't know
[05:47] That's a stretch. I
[05:49] Feel like we're
[05:51] We got nothing here
[05:53] You know, and this is this is America looks to us for for better guesses than this. I wouldn't say we got nothing
[05:59] we
[06:01] said it's probably a
[06:03] Either a frontiers II thing from the 19th century or
[06:09] Flappers and the roaring to our prohibition. Maybe we got a gin joints. Yes. Let's get out
[06:18] All right
[06:21] Does it does it make a degree? Is that Shakespeare anybody?
[06:25] Yeah, I think I'm out on Shakespeare for this one, which probably means it's Shakespeare horse racing
[06:29] I
[06:32] Chance that it's British in any way. I feel like it sounds
[06:41] Nordic I mean
[06:51] So that the only reason why I was kind of thinking Nordic was cuz the esky e construction like
[06:58] Yeah, which we just made up right? I'm sorry. We just made up the spelling. It could be
[07:05] We just decided I'm pretty sorry. I feel like I've seen it. I've spelled that way
[07:10] Yeah, I have one II but otherwise we're all in the same page. Yeah
[07:16] Okay
[07:18] Early return say mid 19th century origin unknown
[07:23] meaning to run away quickly
[07:25] According to my robot overlord bard
[07:30] According to Google
[07:34] Peaked around
[07:36] 1865 or so then a trough until
[07:40] The 20s and say and now it's back. It's close to the peak now. Oh nice
[07:46] so according to bard the there are four leading theories for its origin the
[07:52] Most evidence points to the American Civil War
[07:55] It gained prominence in military context around 1861 and rapidly under general use
[08:01] The timing suggested may have arisen in the specific dialect of soldiers or camp followers
[08:06] To is the British dialect?
[08:09] There is a word scattle meaning to run off in a fright
[08:14] This term stems from Middle English adjective scattle meaning wild timid skittish
[08:22] Scandinavian influence and finally ancient Greek
[08:30] Is that matching it just did my robot overload get that right based on what you're saying I'm not seeing ancient Greek
[08:37] Well, they they comb the same internet that I'm
[08:42] They've illegally combed the same internet
[08:45] So
[08:48] Skidasis or skidosmos both meaning scattering or dispersion
[08:52] But again, it's fourth on the list for the Greek and tentative lack strong support
[08:58] Possibly ancient Greek. Yes good dasmos
[09:03] Dispersion, I mean we're got 19th century
[09:08] Likely, maybe not frontiers II but civil war II
[09:11] Okay, pretty close. Yeah, we're close see if that's the that's the most
[09:19] It looks like the strongest link
[09:22] so I'm gonna say
[09:24] We nailed it like we always do
[09:26] earliest recorded use of skedaddle in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
[09:31] newspaper the agitator
[09:33] on 12 January
[09:35] 1860
[09:37] It appears in a humorous story about a traveler who arrives in a town shortly after a steamboat the Franklin
[09:44] Suffered a boiler explosion with many casualties
[09:48] Mistakenly thinking that he was on the boat
[09:52] What what the townspeople are
[09:54] Solicitous and go out of their way to make sure he is well and that he has all he needs
[10:00] Where did you find yourself after the explosion?
[10:07] How far from the Franklin says he
[10:10] Why says I I never see there, but I as nigh as I can guess about
[10:17] 375 miles
[10:19] You ought to you are a senior that y'all
[10:23] You are seeing that gang skedaddle. Well, that is some strong dialect. Do you have? Yeah, that was well done and your pronunciation and
[10:35] So you've got this
[10:38] Here
[10:40] Originally from skedaddle
[10:45] and
[10:46] reprinted in the northern newspapers in
[10:50] 1859
[10:51] representing Hoosier speech
[10:54] hmm
[10:56] Yeah, I've seen that where's that it is. I am on at
[11:00] tamalein
[11:02] Dot-com at a malign
[11:04] dot-com
[11:06] It has no connection to the English
[11:10] dialect with means to spill or to scatter but in fact
[11:15] Instead the enlargement of
[11:18] Scaddles scare or frighten
[11:21] They seem awfully confident when no one else is I wonder what inside information
[11:25] Yeah at em align as
[11:29] That the rest of these people don't
[11:33] I like this
[11:36] From
[11:39] An Irish writer Edward Keneally in a new pantomime an
[11:46] exchange of insults
[11:49] Beleged boozer ape
[11:51] apostate
[11:52] chicken-hearted Maffler grub
[11:54] numbskull slanderer bass skedaddler
[11:58] Dare you thus a lady snub. I like that a lot
[12:04] So it seems like Civil War ish
[12:07] Good about that
[12:09] So Jonathan green in the castle dictionary of slang suggests that the Civil War transfer of the word
[12:16] The US was quotes
[12:19] Through the image of blood and corpses being thus spilled and scattered on the battlefield before the flight of a demoralized army
[12:26] Oh my god
[12:28] Dark
[12:29] That actually gets a little yeah, it always gets dark
[12:34] usually some
[12:36] Someone died many many people died so much
[12:43] So many childhoods
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