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- Title
LOACH IN THE PEELE JESTBOOK.
- Authors
Bratcher, James T.
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of the word "loach," in the book "The Merry Conceited Jests of George Peele." One of the jests variously refers to a particular victim of one of the confidence tricks attributed to Peele in the jestbook as "excellent asse," "little foole," "Hitchcocke," "bulfinch" and "this loach." Used as a pejorative meaning "simpleton," the last of these epithets deserves mention. Loach as a pejorative epithet may have been fashionable among Peele's circle of acquaintances. The Oxford English Dictionary records its use to mean "simpleton."
- Subjects
MERRY Conceited Jests of George Peele, The (Book); JESTBOOKS; EPITHETS; TERMS &; phrases; PEELE, George, 1556-1596; AUTHORS
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2005, Vol 52, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gji237