Something Rhymes with Purple

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PM Feb 08, 2022

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Good Afternoon, Purple People!

This is the follow up to Episode 144, AM, where Susie took us from morning to just before lunch delivering some perfect words to get us through the day.

Now it’s time for the afternoon so let’s sit down for some luncheon as Susie helps us to identify the parasites, groakers, pinglers and guttlers amongst us before Gyles leads us into a post-perennial snooze.

After our rizzle, it may be time for some expert fudgeling before a fit-of-the-clevers takes us to the end of the working day.

After all that, I think we have earned ourselves a scandal broth!

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Susie’s Trio:

Festinate - to make haste

Thalassophile - lover of the sea

Ferrule - tip of the umbrella, metal bit on a pencil to attach the rubber - something made of iron

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Ataraxy Feb 01, 2022

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Recorded live at the first of our London shows at the Cadogan Hall, Susie and Gyles focus on the lost language of positivity. Susie is on a mission to bring back the orphaned partners of uncouth, unkempt, and ruthless, and she also has some wonderful words to keep you thinking positively throughout 2022. Elsewhere Gyles reveals his secrets to happiness, there are lots of questions and suggestions from the audience, a few script mishaps, a trio, and a poem. It’s jam-packed with upbeat goodness.

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Susie’s Trio:

Periplus – account or narrative of a circumnavigation or other voyage

Shivviness – the uncomfortableness of wearing new underwear

Dispester – to get rid of a pest

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Schuss Jan 25, 2022

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Pop your dirtiest salopettes on and join us as we race both on-piste and off-piste through the exciting language of winter sports. Separate your luge from your skeleton, your skates from your skis, and find out who put the bob in bobsleigh. Elsewhere Gyles interrogates Susie on the “ask gap” and they’re in danger of melting the ice with a long chat about psychometric tests and dating profiles.

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Susie’s Trio:

Sesquihoral – lasting an hour and a half

Pauciloquent – a person of few words

Dunduckity – dull and indeterminate of colour

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Foolhappy Jan 18, 2022

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This week we’re having a much-needed sift through all your fabulous emails that came in over the Christmas period and dedicating the whole episode to your linguistic head-scratchers.

We find out why lumbago no longer has our backing, the sharper origins of the phrase ‘can’t hold a light to’, and what a fugitive has to do with an explosion between your legs. Plus we go hunting for Dudgeon and Low Dudgeon and discover an interesting link between the different seasons. The work goes on!

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Susie’s trio:

Scamander - to wander around without a specific purpose in mind

Pigritious - a bit slothful and lazy

Clumperton -old term for a clown or clod hopper

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Chum (Recorded live at Chichester Festival Theatre) Jan 11, 2022

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It’s the second instalment from our live show at the Chichester Festival Theatre and in this episode Susie and Gyles take us through the revolving doors of the language of hotels.

Gyles re-visits his days as an MP as we uncover the origin of the word ‘lobby’ and Susie reveals the icy reason why at 15, she aspired to be a hotel manager! Fortunately for us, Susie instead decided to become a lexicographer and takes us on a few further visits to hostels and chamber chums with detours to pickets and prisons along the way.

The 1000 strong crowd at Chichester put Susie and Gyles to the test with their questions (transcribed below) and came up with some very inventive definitions for Susie’s Trio.

Questions from the live audience - TRANSCRIPTION:

Sarah Brocker, - “Where does the word Trug for a garden basket come from?”

David Lambert, Chichester - “What is the origin of the word ‘Flapjacket’, it sounds as if it should be made of surgical steel doesn’t it?"

Audience member 3 - "At university, I used the word ‘somewhen’, and people looked at me like I was stupid?"

Audience member 4 - “How do you pronounce Gif?”

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Susie’s Trio:

Griffonage - sloppy or careless handwriting

Cachinnate - loud cackle

Cancatevate - to heap stuff into a pile

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AM Jan 04, 2022

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Rise and shine Purple People. We’re kicking off the new year with a whole host of wonderful words to carry you through every moment of the day. From getting out of bed with an expurger or a jobblyjock we’ll help cure your dysania and clinomania and make the very best of the morning to come.

Plus Susie spins some poetry out of all the different words we’ve invented over the years for time-wasting.

If your new year’s resolution is to widen your vocabulary then this is the episode for you.

Warning: contains some swearing.

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Susie's Trio:

Ruelle - an alleyway or the space between the bed and the wall

Whindle - a feigned groan

Butter shag - a slice of bread and butter

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Tipple Dec 28, 2021

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Join us as we pop a few corks and drink deeply from various bottles of linguistic libation.

Feel free to plunge your nose into the glass and discover the link between claret and clear, blackbirds and merlot, and gen up on the difference between a Nebuchadnezzar and a Balthazar.

In vino veritas and please listen responsibly.

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Susie's Trio:

Retardataire – behind the times
Rhinarium – hairless and moist nose of an animal e.g. a dog
Scrippage – all your baggage and personal belongings

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Gregarious Dec 21, 2021

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This week we’re separating the wheat from the chaff and paying tribute to those hard-working folk who will be working the land over the Christmas season.

So roll up your sleeves and dig in with us as we uncover the origins of a ploughman’s lunch, learn of the debt that the financial world owes the lexicon of agriculture, and we get under the linguistic bonnet of the combine harvester.

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Susie’s trio:
Gutling – a greedy eater
Anythingarian – someone who doesn’t really believe in anything strongly
Colworts – old news; tired old cabbage

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Hooch Dec 14, 2021

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Recorded live in front of 1000 Purple People at the Chichester Festival Theatre, in this episode we get our claws into the rich language of the 1920s. From sipping gimlets in speakeasys to getting a shingle to go with our plus fours we skip through a decade that gave so many unique phrases to the English language. No hokum, it really is the bees-knees.

There are lots of theatrical anecdotes from Gyles as he’s in a theatre very close to his heart and our lovely audience come up with some very inventive definitions for Susie’s Trio.

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Susie’s Trio:
Pettitoes – pig’s trotters served as a delicacy
Skimmington – a procession used to make an example of a nagging wife
Gasconade – extravagant boasting and strutting

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Curglaff Dec 07, 2021

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A very special episode of the show this week as we bring you highlights of the first live show of our 2021/2022 tour.

We’re in Bath where, appropriately, we were discussing the language of baths and bathing.

Discover the equestrian links to a bidet and the unpleasant origin of ‘bumf’ in a show full of Eureka moments… just make sure you get out before you become quibbled.

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Susie’s Trio:
Omninescience - knowing nothing at all
Nodcrafty - nodding your head with authority even though you’ve zoned out of the conversation
Hypnopompic - to be in the state of consciousness before you become completely awake

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