Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Significato di Spraffing

Buongiorno a tutti!
Leggendo un post su di un forum in lingua inglese ho trovato un termine 
mai sentito prima e che il dizionario non riporta... Anche su Google non 
ho trovato info utili.
Il termine è "Spraffing", che su google ho trovato essere un sinonimo di 
"Wibbling" (ma anche questo non mi risulta da nessuna parte)
La frase è:
Thank you for your kind offer. Between yourself and T... I ought to be 
spraffing away in no time. 
Riferito ad un corso di lingua straniera che questo tipo vorrebbe seguire 
e alla successiva offerta di aiuto da parte di un secondo utente del 
forum.
Mi potete aiutare?
Grazie per le vostre risposte!
-- 
Antonio
"Il paradiso non sarà mai un paradiso se i miei gatti non saranno lì ad 
accogliermi"
http://it.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shy_1965/my_photos

 "Wibbling" (ma anche questo non mi risulta da nessuna parte)
 
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spraff
 
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm
 
http://english.exue.com.cn/tools/slang/S.htm
 
http://pseudodictionary.com/friend.php?id=7272
 
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wibble
M

   
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wibble
Grazie, io avevo cercato dapprima su Google, ma non dava spiegazioni e 
poi sul dizionario on-line di Hoepli, immaginavo fosse uno dei migliori, 
così come avevo letto qui sul NG...
Mi tocca ricredermi, evidentemente non vale una cicca!!!
Grazie mille!
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 Mi tocca ricredermi, evidentemente non vale una cicca!!!
Not so . The dictionaries to which Max M provides links are slang 
dictionaries whose entries are provided by online users ; many words you 
find there will have a very localised (and often very temporary) currency ; 
I have never heard of 'spraffing' , and if you use such words you risk being 
not understood by 99% of native English speakers . Very sensibly , no 
standard dictionary will include such words until their use has become much 
more securely established .
Mike 

 Mi tocca ricredermi, evidentemente non vale una cicca!!!
Ma no. Nessun dizionario ordinario (o almeno nessuno di quelli agganciati a 
onelook.com
) riporta le due parole in questione.
Max

 their use has become much more securely established .
Thanks for your helpful participation!
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 agganciati a 
onelook.com
) riporta le due parole in questione.
E' un'espressione gergale "di nicchia" come diceva Mike.
Grazie mille!!!
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When I was in the Army in the Far East, it was common for local people
to get an American's attention by calling out, "Hey, GI" (GI is an
appellation commonly applied to American soldiers). On the base where
I was stationed, we would often jokingly use the expression among
ourselves. The Company Commander was incensed by our use of the
phrase, which he considered demeaning, and banned the use of the
phrase "Hey, GI". In a remarkable display of ingenuity, the soldiers
starting using the phrase "Hey, G" instead of "Hey GI", when joking
among themselves. Technically, we were not using the banned phrase and
were in compliance with the Commander's order, but at the same time
were showing a disdain for the authority which had banned the original
phrase, but the Commander could do nothing about it. This new phrase,
and the reason for it's use, was understood by the Commander and by
everyone else on the base, but would have no meaning on any other US
base. I would never consider including this phrase in any dictionary,
since it would be familiar to at most a thousand former soldiers, and
is probably no longer used by anyone. Many of the defintions in the
"slang" dictionaries have a base of usage more limited than and a life
expectancy less than the phrase in question, and are created for use
by an "in" group, so there is no reason to learn them.
Joe from Massachusetts

   and the reason for it's use, was understood by the Commander and
by
its   :>(
Joe from Massachusetts