"oojah capivvy" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Unknown. Perhaps from Urdu ḥujjat kāfī fīhi (“argument is sufficient”); compare oojah. Sornig (see quotations below) suggests derivation from Neapolitan agio capit (“I've understood”), but seems to be alone in this suggestion. Attested from the 1910s, often described as soldiers’ or sailors’ slang.",
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          "ref": "1931, John Van Druten, London Wall, a Comedy in Three Acts:",
          "text": "Birkinshaw: I suppose you ’aven’t time to help me with the post, have you? I’d like to get off to time to-night.\nPat: All right.\nBirkinshaw: There’s a whole lot in the Oojah Capivvy now. If you’d just take ’em and fold ’em and stick ’em in the envelopes, and bung ’em across to me, I’ll enter ’em up.",
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          "ref": "1975, Zulfikar Ghose, Crump’s Terms: A Novel, page 31:",
          "text": "If that’s what you want to work for, right, let’s start, get the bibles out.\n―Ooja ka pivi! commented Barnes, and added as an afterthought: Spas!",
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          "ref": "2011 August 26, THE FERRET, “Another death by towball”, in Patrol 4x4:",
          "text": "It's a bit like a ujakapivi, only they copy that idea from the wigwam for a goose's bridle.lol",
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        "Something that one cannot name or does not know the name of; a whatsit."
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        "(informal, dated, now rare) Something that one cannot name or does not know the name of; a whatsit."
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          "word": "oojah-cum-spiff"
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          "word": "wigwam for a goose's bridle"
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        {
          "word": "oojah"
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          "word": "ooja capivvy"
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        {
          "word": "ooja ka pivvy"
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        {
          "word": "ooja ka pivi"
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        {
          "word": "oojah capiff"
        },
        {
          "word": "ojah capiff"
        },
        {
          "word": "oojah ka piv"
        },
        {
          "word": "ooja ka piv"
        },
        {
          "word": "oojah kerpiv"
        },
        {
          "word": "oojah-cum-pivvy"
        },
        {
          "word": "hoojah kapippy"
        },
        {
          "word": "ujahkapiv"
        }
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        "archaic",
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      "ipa": "/ˌuːdʒɑː kəˈpɪvi/",
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        "(informal, dated, now rare) Something that one cannot name or does not know the name of; a whatsit."
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    {
      "word": "ooja capivvy"
    },
    {
      "word": "ooja ka pivvy"
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    {
      "word": "ooja ka pivi"
    },
    {
      "word": "oojah capiff"
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    {
      "word": "ojah capiff"
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    {
      "word": "oojah ka piv"
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    {
      "word": "ooja ka piv"
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      "word": "oojah kerpiv"
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      "word": "hoojah kapippy"
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