The ensemble of it may seem almost more to match style than substance: not so much intelligent as fashionable. It was term part admiring, part insulting. As has been pointed out elsewhere, this word may sound a little old or out of touch to some, a fact I should have mentioned. Words are, after all, known by the company they keep. As I read it, I hear an urban working class Dublin accent say it. But that could be just my association to the word.
Pingback: Link love: language 67 Sentence first. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. First Known Use of nifty Adjective , in the meaning defined above Noun , in the meaning defined above. History and Etymology for nifty Adjective origin unknown. Learn More About nifty. Time Traveler for nifty The first known use of nifty was in See more words from the same year.
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Today, of course, anyone downloading anything described as "nifty" is probably in for a nasty shock. Smart, you bet your life 'twas that! Short for magnificat. Alternatively, the OED points to and implies a possible combination of the terms "natty" "neatly smart or fashionable," possibly from "neat" and "thrifty" in the extended sense of "thriving and successful".
Such a melding would certainly fit the initial meaning of "nifty" as "splendid or fine," and could easily have extended to its current meaning of "clever or skillful. I've heard the colloquialism "copy that" or just "copy" but what is the origin of the phrase "Roger that" meaning, basically, "Ok, I understand"?
The actual radio codes used by police forces vary considerably from place to place. In New York City, for instance, "" spoken as "ten four" has long been used as an acknowledgment, the equivalent of "roger," but in much of Ohio, a "" or "Code Four" is a traffic accident.
My local sheriff's department uses "You're clear" to indicate understanding, while in many other places "You're clear" would mean that an officer has permission to leave a scene and resume patrol. There is, as you probably suspect, no person named "Roger" in this story. Radio alphabets are designed to unambiguously convey letters no matter how bad the reception may be. They even still list "wilco" short for "will comply ," although, mercifully, "over and out" seems to be passe. A little off the top and another one of these.
Dear Word Detective: I beseech thee to sort out this business of "saloon" and "salon. The other is where you go to drink brandy, discuss poetry and other hoity-toity stuff, and consort with rich women. Then there is a third type where women go to have their hair bent and no consorting goes on at all?
Different meanings, spellings, and pronunciations, but I gather the same origin? Get with the program, dude. Men go to hair salons now too. It was a chain of low-end McHair chop-shops long in attitude everyone there spoke with a weird vaguely French accent but notably short in technique I invariably emerged looking like a demented pixie. Now I have my hair cut by a guy named Les in a cinder block building across from an abandoned tire dump on Route He does an excellent job.
How to use nifty in a sentence These are nifty tools to have, especially for SMBs where one person, or a small team, may be responsible for multiple marketing channels.
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