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Questions about tracing out and describing the elements of an individual word, as well as the historical changes in form and sense which that word has experienced over its history. Please use the 'phrase-origin' tag for phrase/expression origins.
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Origin of “riff”
The suffix on riffle is iterative.
There are many examples of this type of derivation in English. One is patter from pat. (It’s defined as a rapid succession of light taps.) Word pairs like pat/ …
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Is "kip" Chinese in origin?
Could the BE slang term ‘kip’ meaning to sleep be a borrowing from Hokkien? I searched Hobson/Jobson and came up with this:
CHOP-CHOP . Pigeon-English (or -Chinese) for 'Make haste! look sharp!' …
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