rappiolla
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I have googled for the meaning of the thread title to no avail. I came across it in one of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books and was not able to figure it out from the context. Perhaps it is dated as is often the case in vocabulary found in other similar books written in the early 20th century.
This is the paragraph:
‘Well, if anybody had told me this would happen, I wouldn’t have believed it. I would have laughed mockingly. Bertie Wooster let me down? No, no, I would have said – not Bertie, who was not only at school with me but is at this very moment bursting with my meat.’
(From P. G. Wodehouse: "Joy in the Morning")
This is the paragraph:
‘Well, if anybody had told me this would happen, I wouldn’t have believed it. I would have laughed mockingly. Bertie Wooster let me down? No, no, I would have said – not Bertie, who was not only at school with me but is at this very moment bursting with my meat.’
(From P. G. Wodehouse: "Joy in the Morning")