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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2006Etymology question
Where does the term "Pan Crocking" come from? I can't find it in Wikipedia or Google, but we used it all the time as kids. Perhaps I've got it spelled incorrectly. My best guess would be that it comes from a cooking term? It means impatient or hurried BTW, at least that's the way we used it. > Where does the term "Pan Crocking" come from? I can't find it in Wikipedia > or Google, but we used it all the time as kids. Perhaps I've got it spelled > incorrectly. My best guess would be that it comes from a cooking term? It > means impatient or hurried BTW, at least that's the way we used it. I've never heard the term. I've heard 'get cracking' to mean 'hurry up', probably from an old slang usage of 'cracking' to mean 'fast'.  SignatureCheryl > Where does the term "Pan Crocking" come from? I can't find it in Wikipedia > or Google, but we used it all the time as kids. Perhaps I've got it > spelled incorrectly. My best guess would be that it comes from a cooking > term? It means impatient or hurried BTW, at least that's the way we used > it. Given the way slang expressions change over time. Can you give it to us in a sentence or two. And also tell us where you grew up. Also possible where your parents grew up. Jo >> Where does the term "Pan Crocking" come from? I can't find it in >> Wikipedia or Google, but we used it all the time as kids. Perhaps I've [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Jo Yep How many remember what that is a crackerjack means for those who don't it means it is a hit >> Where does the term "Pan Crocking" come from? I can't find it in >> Wikipedia or Google, but we used it all the time as kids. Perhaps I've [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Jo A couple of uses I can think of: "What's he pan crocking about" or "He's pan crocking to get his x repaired". Basically meaning in a hurry or impatient. As for where I grew up, in the bush, can't you tell. :) Seriously, I grew up in Central Ontario, as did my parents, grand parents, etc. Although my mother's parents were Irish (city slickers) and she seems to remember it being used as a child, but I thought it was more of a rural term. >>> Where does the term "Pan Crocking" come from? I can't find it in >>> Wikipedia or Google, but we used it all the time as kids. Perhaps I've [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > mother's parents were Irish (city slickers) and she seems to remember it > being used as a child, but I thought it was more of a rural term. You grew up in the bush you had to go up the mountain down in the holler into the valley beyon' ther' out past the two hills up on the hill past them varmints to get to my home town That has to be a local phrase. Never heard it! > Where does the term "Pan Crocking" come from? I can't find it in Wikipedia > or Google, but we used it all the time as kids. Perhaps I've got it spelled > incorrectly. My best guess would be that it comes from a cooking term? It > means impatient or hurried BTW, at least that's the way we used it. |
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