Thread: short of costume ideas:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COSTUME-TRIBAL...QQcmdZViewItem

Well just tie a hip scarf around your chest, that'll be really secure, plus it will look very professional.

"THE GOLD COINS MAKE YOU SEXY, GORGEOUS AND LARRUPING "

Ummmm.... what the heck is 'larruping'? It doesn't sound like anything I want to be...l;,

Originally Posted by Bellydancingcaroline

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COSTUME-TRIBAL...QQcmdZViewItem

Well just tie a hip scarf around your chest, that'll be really secure, plus it will look very professional.

Not only that, but THE GOLD COINS MAKE YOU SEXY, GORGEOUS AND LARRUPING.

lol I think we posted at the same time

great minds.....

Samirah - you are soooo behind the times, simply everyone is using hipscarves for tops and larruping nowadays.

Excuse me, I have to larrup off now.

Yeah.... Great minds are easily confused by non-existent words. LOL!

Originally Posted by Samirah-NH

Yeah.... Great minds are easily confused by non-existent words. LOL!

I think it is actually a real word, from what I recall it has something to do with spanking.

Will go and check!

OMG - you're right! "To beat, flog or thrash. To give a spanking to."

And I was right... nothing I want to do. LOL!! And what on earth does that have to do with bellydancing? Nevermind, I don't even want to know..w.:

larruping - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

Larrup Lar"rup, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Larruped; p. pr. & vb.
n. Larruping.] [Perh, a corrupt. of lee rope, used by
sailors in beating the boys; but cf. D. larpen to thresh,
larp a whip, blow.]
To beat or flog soundly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby.
[1913 Webster]

Hmm, even more weird than if it was a made-up word!

I've obviously spent far too much time watching "Call My Bluff"

Larruping -- just looked it up. Means beating, flogging, or thrashing.

Maybe when you put the top on you look so awful that you thrash about on the floor.

Souzan

All good, but...

Sexy and gorgeous are adjectives describing how the costume will look, but "larupping" seems to be a present participle, which doesn't really make sense... since it doesn't seem like a costume could "look like it was larupping"

Originally Posted by antimony

All good, but...

Sexy and gorgeous are adjectives describing how the costume will look, but "larupping" seems to be a present participle, which doesn't really make sense... since it doesn't seem like a costume could "look like it was larupping"

I think the vendor was linguistically cunning by creating a present participial adjective.

Present participles are always adjectives, I thought. But it's a non-sensical adjective to describe how a costume would make you look.

Originally Posted by antimony

Present participles are always adjectives, I thought. But it's a non-sensical adjective to describe how a costume would make you look.

We call them "unit modifiers"--covers the entire gamut when in editor-speak mode.

Souzan

My husband uses the term 'Lairping' (I'm not sure how to spell it) to mean 'delicious.' I don't know where it comes from, he's descended from the Hatfields so they're country folk, I thought it was a country expression.

I didn't know it meant beating. But he also says "It'll make your tongue slap your brain out," so maybe it's derived from that?

I just went & looked at the pic. Not so different from many, many of Dahlal's past 'dancer designs' It's a common thing to see on a student around here -- with a strapless bra under and securely pinned in place, of course.

But selling it as a top seems weird.

Your appearance will Larupp, lasso, capture your audience!..g.:

Having said that..yes worn as a top .
Since I started dancing I have often seen vendors show how the belt can also be worn as a top and I have seen it worn to some nice effect in such a way at a hafla. It does however not look that "professional" unless you are going for a "Gypsy" look in your act.
Secondly it suits the lesser-boobed bird than than us deep chested old hens.
Thirdly I saw a girl being shown how to wear a belt as a top in a Turkish bazaar on holiday. It looked good!

Oooh, oooh ooh, I found it!
http://www.pbs.org/speak/words/track...dex.php?i=1235

Apparently it's a Southern US expression, it does come from the 'beating' similar to saying something is "thumping good."

(check out that map at the bottom -- is that supposed to be the US?)

Here's a similar definition:

"larapin" is a very nice, if somewhat mysterious, word. The most common spelling is "larruping," and it does indeed mean "excellent or first-rate" and is often used to mean "delicious" when referring to food. "Larruping" which is heard from the midwest to New Mexico, can also be used as an intensifying adverb in phrases such as "larruping good."

The origin of "larruping" meaning "excellent" is a little uncertain. It seems to be related to the English dialect word "larrup," meaning "to whip, beat or thrash," which first appeared in the early 19th century and may be based on the Dutch "larpen," meaning "to whip."

It's not entirely clear how "larruping," which originally meant "beating," came to mean "excellent," but it probably reflects the same logic as the use of "smashing" or "walloping" (as in "a walloping good time was had by all") to mean "superior" or "superlative."

By the way, "larrup" has also been used since the late 19th century to mean molasses or any sort of sweet syrup, and pancake syrup used to be known as "larrupy dope," the original meaning of "dope" being simply "thick liquid."

lol! o.k. this is why i love coming to BHUZ...for the educational element! and the laughs!

Thanks, Norma. I was feeling like a dork for going all geek-ish when everybody else was just playing -- but I forgot how many of us are Virgos around here!

Originally Posted by norma

The origin of "larruping" meaning "excellent" is a little uncertain. It seems to be related to the English dialect word "larrup," meaning "to whip, beat or thrash," which first appeared in the early 19th century and may be based on the Dutch "larpen," meaning "to whip."

Larpen? I'm Dutch but larpen rings no bells and Dutch spelling check also doesn't recognize it. It's probably medieval. I would use ranselen to translate to whip, still not commonly used (nowadays) but at least recognizable. (No virgo here, Gemini )

BTW I would not like to wear that, it looks very uncomfortable with the twisted ties around the neck. I can't stand things so close to my neck.

The seller is in Hong Kong, so, maybe it has a different meaning there. I too, see these all the time in the dancers design on Dahlal's site. They have created some quick and easy designs using this costuming method.

And it's not been all that long since it was common idiom for "slamming." Lou Gehrig's after-season barnstorming team was called the "Larrupin' Lous."

B***er - picture's been removed - mind you I remember a (very nice) dancer who ill-advisedly wore a coin hipscarf wrapped round her chest for performance, and had to spend the whole time clamping her arms to her body to keep it from falling down - not a good look!