Saturday 2 June 2012
Chuzzlewit
Is there a bawdy pun in Dickens's made-up name, here? 'Chusherel', 'Chuserel' or 'Chuzerel' means (the OED informs me) 'a whoremaster, a debauched fellow', a man who indulges himself carnally. If 'chuzzle' or variants thereof is slang for a fucker, then wouldn't that make Chuzzle-wit fuckwit? Surely not, Charlie!
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I do hope so.
Reminds me of "I got it from Agnes" by Tom Lehrer. Who could have guessed that a mathematician would know what a 'Lucky Pierre' was?
Thank heavens for worldly men
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