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ecky thump en · INTJ

Etymology

Introduced in "Kung Fu Kapers", a 1975 episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies. In the episode, "ecky thump" is a secret Lancastrian martial art using black puddings as a weapon.

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, humorous) Exclamation of surprise or pleasure, supposedly part of a Northern English dialect.
    • The Guardian, Sunday June 10 2007, Kitty Empire The latest Stripes album title, a play on the Lancastrian exclamation Ecky thump! is, in part, a gasp of surprise...
    • […] its bellowing cry of Ecky thump! sounded much friendlier than […] 1985, Keith Waterhouse, Waterhouse At Large.:
    • Ecky thump! I've never tasted anything as good. 2001, Cyril Morris, Morgi, page 122:
    • In Lancashire the comical Ee, ecky thump! is to all intents and purposes extinct 1981, Peter Wright, Cockney Dialect and Slang:

wikipedia: Kung Fu Kapers