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217 months ago

Araceli Herrera (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

English > Spanish

Subject:

Technical / Engineering

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

Havey cavey

Context:

Be still, my lady. Havey cavey, I call it. Running off to Gretna Green with a man you had´

Keywords:

Aparece en una novela romántica.

 

 

The answer of Translation 123  See profile was rated best

suspicious

My comment:

http://www.newandusedbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=features2&feature_elementID=76

Some of my favorite Regency words come from rhyming cant. Havey-cavey (suspicious); argle-bargle (argument), niffy-naffy (hoity-toity), mingle-mangle (a mess). The combinations themselves add a lighter touch, perfect for comedy of manners, sweet social- foible romances.

http://www.heyerlist.org/slang.html