| 释义 |
Ziph|zɪf|
[Origin unknown.]
An invented language used at Winchester College.
1853De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches I. vii. 209 Lord Westport and I communicated our thoughts occasionally by means of a language..which bore the name of Ziph. The language and the name were both derived..from Winchester. 1922O. Jespersen Lang. viii. 150 ‘Ziph’ or ‘Hypernese’ (at Winchester) substitutes wa for the first of two initial consonants and inserts p or g, making ‘breeches’ into wareechepes. 1942E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 160/2 Gibberish is applied mostly to Ziph (shagall wege gogo = shall we go). |