Talk:oojakapiv

RFV discussion: May–June 2023
&mdash; S URJECTION / T / C / L / 09:04, 1 May 2023 (UTC)


 * OED "oojah capivvy, n." :
 * "1962   Sunday Times 4 Feb. 31/6  				This was the catch-phrase in a music-hall song in use during the first world war... I remember the line and the tune: ‘You cannot eat it, or see it, or hear it—you just ask for Ujah-ka-piv.’ 1966   ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 78  				Whur's ther ojah-capiff?, where is the hammer, spanner or whatever it might be?"
 * Also, from 's 1961 collection A Dustbin of Milligan: "The people who live / On the Oojah-ka-Piv / Stand around in bundles of nine".
 * The term is well documented in slang dictionaries but rather hard to find written attestations for. It also doesn't have a fixed written form; OED gives
 * "Forms: 			 1900s– hoojah-kapippy,  1900s– ojah-capiff,   1900s– ooja capivvy,   1900s– oojah-capiff,   1900s– oojah capivvy,   1900s– oojah-cum-pivvy,   1900s– oojah-ka-piv,   1900s– oojah-kerpiv,   1900s– ooja-ka-piv,   1900s– ooja-ka-pivi,   1900s– ooja-ka-pivvy,   1900s– ujah-ka-piv."
 * Related to oojah, oojamaflip, possibly also to oojah-cum-spiff. 蒼鳥 fawk. tell me if i did anything wrong. 13:32, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

The entry was deleted as part of a mass deletion of one user's creations. I'll call this RFV-closed, but if sufficient evidence can be found, an entry should be created under one of these many forms. This, that and the other (talk) 04:07, 5 June 2023 (UTC)