Today’s Bizarro:
canoe and canoodle
They have, apparently, nothing to do with one another (though you can, of course, canoodle in a canoe,
On canoodle, from NOAD2:
verb [no obj.] informal kiss and cuddle amorously: she was caught canoodling with her boyfriend. ORIGIN mid 19th cent. (originally US): of unknown origin.
December 10, 2014 at 6:34 am |
King David Kalākaua (1836-1891), Merrie Monarch of Hawai’i, was famously caught canoodling when he was supposed to be canoeing.
January 2, 2015 at 1:03 am |
Jan Freeman took up the canoe – canoodle connection (or, rather, lack of it) in a blog posting of 10/4/12, “Can Boston Claim Canoodling?”, here:
http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2012/10/04/canoodle-jan-freeman