First name, rhyming forms of
- First name, rhyming forms of
It is a habit of many adults to play a rhyming game with a baby’s name at the pre-speech stage of the infant. This habit is sometimes transferred into adult life, where the rhyming forms become intimate diminutive forms. ‘Georgy-porgy’ and ‘Jimsy-wimsy’ occur in Georgy Girl, by Margaret Forster; ‘Jeannie-Peenie’ is in The Taste of Too Much, by Clifford Hanley, which also has an example of ‘Petesy-Wetesy’. Such infant forms may also be used to annoy the person concerned, implying that he or she is babyish. Within and Without, by John Harvey, has a girl addressed as ‘Bridget the Fidget’, where the second element is inspired by her movements but no doubt seems especially suitable because of the rhyme. Fox in the Attic, by Richard Hughes, shows the playfulness that is possible with a name like ‘Polly’, going well beyond the simply ‘Polly-wolly’. This is at first extended to ‘Pollywollydoodle’, then to ‘Pollyollywollyollydoodleoodleoooo’. The syllabic rhyming game in baby talk is extended to words as well as names. The rhyming forms may then be used as vocatives.
There is a reference, for example, to a song which had the lyric ‘All day long he called her snookyookums’ in The Dream of Fair Women, by Henry Williamson.
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