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[NABOKOV-L] Idling on Nabokovian leppings
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In a recent movie about royal impediments I came across King Edward's reference to"kinging." I knew that, in Britain, kings reign over their kingdoms, but do they also "king" them? The lords lord, rulers rule, bosses boss...so ? A brief wiki-check reveals: (a) Kinging, also called crowning, is a move in checkers where a piece reaches the final row and becomes a king, similar to promotion in chess; (b) Kinging, a sexual practice; (c) Kinging, abbreviation of drag kinging, the activity of a drag king."
How very confusing. We may verbalize elbow, eye, nose, knee,finger. We can list, coin,ring, bottle, net...
Nabokov often makes reference to "lep". A fresh Wiki-help for "lepping" (besides Riverdancing and horse show-jumping ) offered me the "Literary usage of Lepping as found in modern and/or classical literature:"
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1895) "lepping " Lucubrations. THE season of the lepping lust is almost upon us; ... But cubbing in September brings very little lepping in its train, ..." 2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895) "... and, secondly, to Mary, widow of Henry Carey, styled Lord lepping- ton, first of the three illegitimate daughters of Emmanuel Scrope, earl of Sunderland ..." 3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"See lepping-STOCK. HERBY-PIE. See ARBY-PIE. HIGH-GERANIUM. The hydrangea. HILF. The haft or handle of such tools as an axe, a mattock, &c. ..." and from there onto a Lexic.us Definition of Lep (1. strong imp. Leaped./ to leap [v LEPPED, LEPPING, LEPS] - See also: leap)
Brian Boyd mentions "Nabokov's lepping trips in adulthood" (B.Boyd, RY, 78), but the best indication I discovered about Nabokov's "coin" came from Maggie Gee, on the Daily Telegraph 2000 review Lepping around on the hilltops* Any suggestions and explorations on Nabokov's butterflying "leps" o'er rivers and streams?
"The great Russian-American novelist's preferred word for butterfly-chasing was "lepping", a high-speed blur of leaping and lepidoptera."
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* Nab-L Archives: Daily Telegraph (2000)Maggie Gee: "The great Russian-American novelist's preferred word for butterfly-chasing was "lepping", a high-speed blur of leaping and lepidoptera. Review of Brian Boyd's and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle's book (they "have garnered every sentence from Nabokov's novels, letters and poems that deals with butterflies, along withexamples of his scientific writings.)Nabokov's Butterflies, ed by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, tr by Dmitri Nabokov, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, GBP25, ISBN 0541557222
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In a recent movie about royal impediments I came across King Edward's reference to"kinging." I knew that, in Britain, kings reign over their kingdoms, but do they also "king" them? The lords lord, rulers rule, bosses boss...so ? A brief wiki-check reveals: (a) Kinging, also called crowning, is a move in checkers where a piece reaches the final row and becomes a king, similar to promotion in chess; (b) Kinging, a sexual practice; (c) Kinging, abbreviation of drag kinging, the activity of a drag king."
How very confusing. We may verbalize elbow, eye, nose, knee,finger. We can list, coin,ring, bottle, net...
Nabokov often makes reference to "lep". A fresh Wiki-help for "lepping" (besides Riverdancing and horse show-jumping ) offered me the "Literary usage of Lepping as found in modern and/or classical literature:"
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1895) "lepping " Lucubrations. THE season of the lepping lust is almost upon us; ... But cubbing in September brings very little lepping in its train, ..." 2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895) "... and, secondly, to Mary, widow of Henry Carey, styled Lord lepping- ton, first of the three illegitimate daughters of Emmanuel Scrope, earl of Sunderland ..." 3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"See lepping-STOCK. HERBY-PIE. See ARBY-PIE. HIGH-GERANIUM. The hydrangea. HILF. The haft or handle of such tools as an axe, a mattock, &c. ..." and from there onto a Lexic.us Definition of Lep (1. strong imp. Leaped./ to leap [v LEPPED, LEPPING, LEPS] - See also: leap)
Brian Boyd mentions "Nabokov's lepping trips in adulthood" (B.Boyd, RY, 78), but the best indication I discovered about Nabokov's "coin" came from Maggie Gee, on the Daily Telegraph 2000 review Lepping around on the hilltops* Any suggestions and explorations on Nabokov's butterflying "leps" o'er rivers and streams?
"The great Russian-American novelist's preferred word for butterfly-chasing was "lepping", a high-speed blur of leaping and lepidoptera."
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* Nab-L Archives: Daily Telegraph (2000)Maggie Gee: "The great Russian-American novelist's preferred word for butterfly-chasing was "lepping", a high-speed blur of leaping and lepidoptera. Review of Brian Boyd's and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle's book (they "have garnered every sentence from Nabokov's novels, letters and poems that deals with butterflies, along withexamples of his scientific writings.)Nabokov's Butterflies, ed by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, tr by Dmitri Nabokov, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, GBP25, ISBN 0541557222
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