| 释义 |
iddy-umpty|ɪdɪˈʌmptɪ|
Also iddy-iddy-umpty.
Conventional verbal representation of the dots and dashes of the Morse code.
1906Punch 24 Jan. 60/3 An ‘Iddy Umpty’ Idyll. 1914Daily Express 15 Dec. 4/5 To see men practising the ‘iddy-umpty’, as they call it, with the back of a sheath-knife on the top of an empty tobacco-tin in lieu of a regulation ‘dummy-key’. 1924Glasgow Herald 23 June 10 For my sins of commission and of omission—as far as the worship of that fetish ‘Iddy-Umpty’ was concerned—I became for a time an inmate of the great signalling camp at Swanage. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 126 Iddy (or Itty) Umpty, an expression first used in India in teaching the dot-and-dash Morse system to native troops. An ‘Iddy Umpty’ in that way came to be used as a term for a signaller. |