{"id":19969,"date":"2020-10-13T17:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19969"},"modified":"2020-10-13T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:31:27","slug":"stop-yar-jifflin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19969","title":{"rendered":"Stop yar jifflin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were told to &#8220;Stop yar jifflin&#8221;, would you know what they meant?<\/p>\n<p>In the Norfolk dialect <strong>jiffle<\/strong> apparently means to fidget or more restlessly, so &#8220;Stop yar jifflin&#8221; means &#8220;Stop fidgeting&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/norfolkdialect.com\/glossary03.htm\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=jiffle\">Urban Dictionary<\/a>, <strong>jiffle<\/strong> means &#8220;To fidgit or move around&#8221; and <strong>jiffling<\/strong> means &#8220;Fidgeting in an annoying childish way&#8221;, and comes from Great Yarmouth. One who jiffles is a <strong>jiffler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s <strong>jifflesticks!<\/strong>, which is apparently an extreme form of fiddlesticks [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=jifflesticks\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting words from Norfolk include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mardle = to gossip, chat; a pond<\/li>\n<li>pample = to tread lightly or quietly<\/li>\n<li>pingle = to play with your food<\/li>\n<li>quackle = to strangle or choke<\/li>\n<li>yalm \/ yarm = to eat hungrily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A similar but unrelated word is <strong>jaffle<\/strong>, which is apparently a toasted sandwich or toastie in Australia and South Africa, which you might make with jaffle maker or jaffle iron [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jaffle\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bandidoofoz\/18011090\/in\/photolist-2Aj7F-2Aj53-yCui69-6FeWZp-4A21VA-6Fj6yW-5acKct-2QKTP-WzZiru-WJJ2UM-78n1eF-dmyXUe-5ZWc4q-6P8ckT-dna3eM-qNzxHj-2QKY1-2QKW5-49uMNm-6URQxV-UnXEnp-f7gug4-PkT1CC-3qbpzU\" title=\"Jaffles\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/14\/18011090_ad93c00c3e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Jaffles\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were told to &#8220;Stop yar jifflin&#8221;, would you know what they meant? In the Norfolk dialect jiffle apparently means to fidget or more restlessly, so &#8220;Stop yar jifflin&#8221; means &#8220;Stop fidgeting&#8221; [source]. According to the Urban Dictionary, jiffle means &#8220;To fidgit or move around&#8221; and jiffling means &#8220;Fidgeting in an annoying childish way&#8221;, [&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-19969","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\/19969","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=19969"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19980,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19969\/revisions\/19980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}