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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Arnold Zwicky just added “Shiffer robe” to the database. A perversion of chifforobes.
Another Annie Lehmann, I guess. Unless the word “Shiffer” has some meaning I’m not aware of. I’m wrecking my brains,* but I can’t come up with any imagery for “Shiffer” that might grease the substitution.
In one of the links in this post Zwicky points out yet another Annie Lehmann:
An apple name, provided by the owner of an old tree, is very useful even though it may be garbled. For example, the old southern apple ‘Magnum Bonum’ is often called “Maggie Bowman.”
Not bad. Not an eggcorn, but not bad.
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*http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3057
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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I’m not aware of any freestanding meaning of “shiffer” either. But whatever a shiffer is, he or she must wear a robe, apparently. Shiffer robe seems suspect as an eggcorn.
Feeling quite combobulated.
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