Fuss
The term fuss is today generally for incidental circumstances , superfluous , unnecessary expense , fuss used. Brimborium comes from the French word "brimborion" ( Lappalie ), which in turn goes back to the Middle French word "breborion" , "briborion" ( magic formula , magic prayer , little thing without value). The origin of this word is presumed to be in the ecclesiastical Latin vocabulary: Breviarium (short list, excerpt), the collection of Catholic hourly prayers .
Origin and history of use
In the 16th century, a prayer characterized by murmuring and fast, indistinct speaking was called fuss. It was often a long prayer in Latin. In later use, any murmuring of sentences that were recited to accompany rituals was called fuss, including magic formulas and the incomprehensible wandering from the subject of a speech, a lecture. It became known to the general public through Goethe's Faust.
- Mephistopheles:
- You speak almost like a French;
- But I ask, don't get annoyed:
- What's the use of just enjoying yourself?
- Freud is far from being so great
- As if your first up, around
- Through all sorts of fuss
- The doll is kneaded and dressed
- How it teaches some what history.
While Brimborium is now more associated with the colloquial language , it was considered part of the upscale language in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the middle of the 20th century there was also the derivation brimboize , but it did not catch on . The term is seen by many as having a negative connotation, as pejorative, and in general one is asked to “ not do any fuss”.
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“And another air raid with all the fuss during the funeral. Something like that is not appropriate: during a funeral! "
- (The "old man" (commandant) in Lothar-Günther Buchheim , Das Boot , 1973)
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Scene at a poker table - Trinity ( Terence Hill ) shuffles cards excessively: "And do we take off sometimes, after the fuss?"
- (one-eyed companion of Wildcat Hendricks (cardsharp) in Four Fists for a Hallelujah , 1972)
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"Some drugs work better if they are administered with the proper fuss."
- (Thomas Binsack, 1998)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Brimbor%C4%ADum?hl=brimborium
- ^ Knaur: The German Dictionary, page 230, Lexigraphisches Institut München 1985
- ↑ Duden
- ↑ Google book search