{"id":18767,"date":"2020-01-29T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18767"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:06:44","slug":"fine-fettles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18767","title":{"rendered":"Fine Fettles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you in fine fettle?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in <strong>fine fettle<\/strong>, you are in a good state or condition, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/e\/word-of-the-day\/fettle-2020-01-27\/\">dictionary.com<\/a>. It apparently comes from  a Lancashire dialect word meaning \u201cto shape, prepare, fix, arrange\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fettle may come from Middle English <em>fetlen<\/em> (to shape, fix, put, bestow), possibly from the Old English <em>fetian<\/em> (to fetch, bring to, marry), or from the Old English <em>fetel<\/em> (belt, girdle).<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fettle\">Wiktionary<\/a>, fettle as a noun means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A state of proper physical condition; kilter or trim.<\/li>\n<li>One&#8217;s mental state; spirits.<\/li>\n<li>Sand used to line a furnace.<\/li>\n<li>A person&#8217;s mood or state, often assuming the worst (<em>Geordie \/ Cumbrian dialect<\/em>): e.g. What&#8217;s yer fettle marra?<\/li>\n<li>a seam line left by the meeting of mold pieces (<em>in ceramics<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>The act of fettling (<em>British dialect<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a verb, fettle means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair (<em>Northern England<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business<\/li>\n<li>To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.<\/li>\n<li>To be upset or in a bad mood (<em>Geordie dialect<\/em>), e.g. Divint fettle yersel ower that!<\/li>\n<li>To remove (<em>as by sanding<\/em>) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds (<em>in ceramics<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>To prepare (<em>archaic<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fettle is usually used in the phrase &#8216;in fine fettle&#8217;. Have you seen\/heard it used with other words or in other contexts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you in fine fettle? If you&#8217;re in fine fettle, you are in a good state or condition, according to dictionary.com. It apparently comes from a Lancashire dialect word meaning \u201cto shape, prepare, fix, arrange\u201d. Fettle may come from Middle English fetlen (to shape, fix, put, bestow), possibly from the Old English fetian (to fetch, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18774,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions\/18774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}