Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity!
Eephing - ee*phing vbl n [Echoic] Cf hoodling, whoop B Creating wordless vocal music made up of nonsense syllables and percussive sounds; also n eaf such music. 1978 Wolfe I’m On My Journey Home 2/1, [Liner notes:] Eephing (or hoodling) is one of a number of vocal-percussive effects still found in the mid-South. . .[It can be] . . .created by . . .clicking the tongue, rapping the teeth . . .blowing into cupped hands, and humming on and blowing into instruments both common and uncommon.
“Quit that eephing. I’ve got a headache.”
“Why does music on the radio sound more and more like eephing these days?”
“Aww, listen to her eephing.”
“Time for eephing practice.”
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Works Cited
Cassidy, Frederic G. Chief Editor. Dictionary Of American Regional English. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Print