Spanish translation of "Havey cavey" - "suspicious"

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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 rom�ntica.

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217 months ago

Translation 123 wrote:

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

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217 months ago

Translation 123 wrote:

I also found it here: http://www.obscurusbooks.org/html/April_Grey/LordSnape/07.html at the bottom of the page is a glossary of terms.

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