Re: FidoNews 37:16 [02/08]: General Articles
  By: Bj”rn Felten to Janis Kracht on Sat Apr 25 2020 08:38:30


 BF> "Stupid is as stupid does."  Gump rhymes with Trump...  8-)

ever looked up the etymology of the word "trump"? the 2nd verb usage is telling
;)


trump (n.1)

"playing card of a suit ranking above others," 1520s, alteration of triumph
(n.), which also was the name of a card game.


trump (n.2)

"trumpet," c. 1300, from Old French trompe "long, tube-like musical wind
instrument" (12c.), cognate with Provençal tromba, Italian tromba, all
probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German trumpa, Old Norse
trumba "trumpet"), of imitative origin.


trump (v.1)

"surpass, beat," 1580s, from trump (n.). Related: Trumped; trumping.


trump (v.2)

"fabricate, devise," 1690s, from trump "deceive, cheat" (1510s), from Middle
English trumpen (late 14c.), from Old French tromper "to deceive," of uncertain
origin. Apparently from se tromper de "to mock," from Old French tromper "to
blow a trumpet." Brachet explains this as "to play the horn, alluding to quacks
and mountebanks, who attracted the public by blowing a horn, and then cheated
them into buying ...." The Hindley Old French dictionary has baillier la trompe
"blow the trumpet" as "act the fool," and Donkin connects it rather to trombe
"waterspout," on the notion of turning (someone) around. Connection with
triumph also has been proposed. Related: Trumped; trumping. Trumped up "false,
concocted" first recorded 1728.


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