What do a partridge, a puff-ball and a feisty person have in common?

Question

... and if you can say what relevance the early song 'Sumer is icumen in' has to the discussion, that's a bonus!

It's much harder than 'the letter P' ... maybe I should have said 'the word "feisty" ' rather than "a feisty person".

Answer 1

Thank you for the question - it took me on a merry little educational jaunt.

How very scatological. The commonality is in the etymology of the words. All are reputedly derived from the Old Aryan root "Perd" to break wind.

Partridge is derived from classical latin Perdix. Perdix is derived from the Greek word for partridge which is itself derived from the word περδεσθαι - meaning to break wind (from the sound the bird makes on taking flight).

A puffball is a kind of mushroom. The scientific name is Lycoperdon, which means "Wolf's fart"

The word feisty is derived from the word Fist. The word fist is from Old English "fisting" from old norse "fisa" to break wind.

And the ancient manuscript in Reading Abbey of "Sumer is icumen in" has the earliest recorded incidence in the English language of the word "to fart" ("Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth").

(I say reputedly derived, because the OED disputes the evidence for the word fist coming from the old aryan root word Perd).

Answer 2

What do a partridge, a puff-ball and a feisty person have in common?

It all explains... Keriby the pink fieitsy, partidge puffball, made by nintendo!!!

Answer 3

letter p. i dont know the answer in ur next question, sorry.