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2007-03-08 19:09:33 · 5 answers · asked by glomitch a 1 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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It has a variety of meanings. Usually something cheeky based on the lyrics.
Read for yourself:

m diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Because I was afraid to speak
When I was just a lad
My father gave me nose a tweak
And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That saved me aching nose
The biggest word I ever heard
And this is how it goes:

Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
So when the cat has got your tongue
There's no need for dismay
Just summon up this word
And then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully
Or it may change your life
One night I said it to me girl
And now me girl's my wife!

2007-03-08 19:18:38 · answer #1 · answered by SpaGirl 5 · 1 0

Isnt it a word off mary poppins? I dont think it means anything

2007-03-08 20:04:19 · answer #2 · answered by angellover6056 5 · 0 0

Nothing. It was a nonsense word made up for a song in a movie.

2007-03-08 19:17:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Disputed.

See the following Wikipedia article:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! (listen (help·info), IPA pronunciation: [ˌsu.pəˌkæ.lɪˌfæ.dʒəl.ɪs.tɪkˌɛk.spi.æ.lɪˈdəʊ.ʃəs]) is a word in the song with the same title in the musical film Mary Poppins and in the musical play Mary Poppins by Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman (The Sherman Brothers).

The song describes how using the word is a miraculous way to talk oneself out of difficult situations and even a way to change one's mood. It occurs in the film's animated sequence where Mary Poppins is harangued by reporters after winning a horse race and responds to a reporter's claim that there are not words to describe her feelings of the moment. Mary disagrees with that claim and begins the song about one word which she can use to describe her feelings. Following the successes of the film and musical play, the word has been used as an adjective signifying rather redundant superlatives, such as "the most absolutely stunningly fantastic" of experiences.

In the West End and Broadway versions of the musical play Mary Poppins, everyone runs out of conversations, and Mary and the children go to Mrs. Corry's shop, where you can buy them. Jane and Michael pick out some letters and spell a few words. Bert and Mrs. Corry use the letters to make up some words (whose existence Jane doubts). Mary says that you could use some letters more than one time and creates the longest word of all in this song.[citations needed]

Critics' belief that the word itself has obscure origins has created some debate about when it was first used historically. According to Robert B. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Richard, the word was created mostly out of double-talk.[citations needed]

Roots of the word have been defined, as Richard Lederer writes in his book Crazy English as follows: super- "above," cali- "beauty," fagilistic- "delicate," expiali- "to atone," and docious- "educable," with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educatability through delicate beauty."[citations needed] This explication of its connotations suits the fictional character of Mary Poppins, in that she presents herself as both superlatively beautiful and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements.[citations needed]

According to the film version of the song, "you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfagicalirupus". Julie Andrews, the star of Mary Poppins, has said that her husband at the time, Tony Walton, devised this backwards version of the word.[citations needed] Strictly speaking, in that word, only each individual root is reversed, rather than the order of each letter, with the exception of the part rupus, which is somewhat reversed, misspelled, and mispronounced. In contrast, the musical play's version of the song presents a version of the word with all the letters reversed.[citations needed]

2007-03-08 19:16:21 · answer #4 · answered by Captain Al 2 · 0 0

You have not written the full word.

It means, HE.

2007-03-08 19:22:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

i think Its something quite atrocious

2007-03-08 19:12:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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