英和和英

別の表記

• barla fummyll
• barla-fumble
• barlafummil
• barlafumle

語源

Uncertain. For the first element, compare barley, which bears a similar meaning as an interjection. The second element may be from French parlez, foi mêlez (“let us have a truce and blend our faith”). First attested in 1568.

間投詞

barlafumble (Scotland, obsolete)

1. A cry for peace or truce in children's games.

   Synonyms: fainites, pax

   • c. 1500, Christis Kirk on the Green:

     Quhile he cryed barlafummil, I am slane.

   • 1868, James Maidment, A Book of Scotish Pasquils. 1568-1715, page 140:

     To fight, lest ye, when canons rumble, / With shame for fear, cry barlafumble.

   • 1913 [c. 1648], William Drummond, The Poetical Works of William Drummon of Hawthornden, volume 2, Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam, page 164:

     Greittans, lookansque grivatè, Barlafumle clamat […]

2. A fall; the act of accidentally losing one's balance.
   • 1687, Samuel Colvil, Mock Poem or Whiggs supplication, Jo. Reid for Alexander Ogston:

     When Coach-men drinks & Horses stumble, / It's hard to miss a Barla-fumble.

参照

• “barla-fumble”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1909) Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, page 141