Mudcat Café message #3761708
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Thread #82053 Message #3761708
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
30-Dec-15 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
Subject: RE: Folklore: Where's your money? In my pocket
GUEST, Robert L gave us these lines:
Oh, I forgot it.
Well get out of here you silly blocket (sic), don't come round here without no pocket.
and GUEST EK gave us:
Where's your pocket?
I forgot it.
Get along home you silly blockhead.
I'd bet money that "blocket" was one of three things, probably from way back in the folk processing:
a Mondegreen for "blockhead", or
a deliberate change for the sake of the rhyme, or
a dialectal version of "blockhead".
My pick of the above would be the third one.