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Lovely jubbly. Notice the pronunciation, 'lovely jubbly'. There is a
kind of resonance there, a rhyming resonance, which is part of the
attraction of the phrase.
It's a jocular exclamation. It means
excellent, brilliant, great. It's the sort of thing you'd say when you
got some good news or had a stroke of luck, 'ah, lovely jubbly'.
Well, would you use it? It depends whether you're influenced by
television, I suppose, more than anything else. It's one of the slang
phrases that was used by Dell Boy in the television series 'Only Fools
and Horses', back in the 1990s. It actually goes back longer than that.
These script writers are well aware of some of the earlier usages of
phrases like this. In fact, you can take it right back to the 1950s,
when there was an ice lolly called a jubbly, and there was an
advertising catch phrase, 'lovely jubbly', and the Dell usage, I
suppose, has come from that.
It later moved into London slang,
mainly, I've heard it elsewhere but mainly in London, for anything that
was excellent. I've heard it with reference to food - very tasty food
is lovely jubbly food. Lovely jubbly antiques, there are - beautiful
antiques, lovely jubbly people. And I guess these programmes are lovely
jubbly programmes!
KEEP YOUR ENGLISH UP TO DATE
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Lovely jubbly. Notice the pronunciation, 'lovely jubbly'. There is a kind of resonance there, a rhyming resonance, which is part of the attraction of the phrase.
It's a jocular exclamation. It means excellent, brilliant, great. It's the sort of thing you'd say when you got some good news or had a stroke of luck, 'ah, lovely jubbly'.
Lovely jubbly. Notice the pronunciation, 'lovely jubbly'. There is a kind of resonance there, a rhyming resonance, which is part of the attraction of the phrase.
It's a jocular exclamation. It means excellent, brilliant, great. It's the sort of thing you'd say when you got some good news or had a stroke of luck, 'ah, lovely jubbly'.
Well, would you use it? It depends whether you're influenced by
television, I suppose, more than anything else. It's one of the slang
phrases that was used by Dell Boy in the television series 'Only Fools
and Horses', back in the 1990s. It actually goes back longer than that.
These script writers are well aware of some of the earlier usages of
phrases like this. In fact, you can take it right back to the 1950s,
when there was an ice lolly called a jubbly, and there was an
advertising catch phrase, 'lovely jubbly', and the Dell usage, I
suppose, has come from that.
It later moved into London slang, mainly, I've heard it elsewhere but mainly in London, for anything that was excellent. I've heard it with reference to food - very tasty food is lovely jubbly food. Lovely jubbly antiques, there are - beautiful antiques, lovely jubbly people. And I guess these programmes are lovely jubbly programmes!
It later moved into London slang, mainly, I've heard it elsewhere but mainly in London, for anything that was excellent. I've heard it with reference to food - very tasty food is lovely jubbly food. Lovely jubbly antiques, there are - beautiful antiques, lovely jubbly people. And I guess these programmes are lovely jubbly programmes!
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