Word origins | Zibidi, Izbandut

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Zibidi: i ve sıf.  eccentric, punk EN[1] (from FA  zіbіden “yaraşmak, yakışmak”tan zіbіdі “giydiğini kendine yakıştıran kimse” [?]) 1. Çok dar çok kısa elbise giymiş olan, kıyâfeti gülünç olan kimse: Yarım pabuçla gezen, donsuz üç buçuk zibidi / Bir Arnavutluğu isyâna kaldırır mı idi (Mehmet Âkif). Ya bu zibidi de mi vatandaş deyip çabucak kırdı (Burhan Felek). Bizim zibidileri gören karnaval var sanır (Târık Buğra). 2. Yersiz ve zamansız davranan kimse: Ne arar ey gül-i zîbende yanında o kedi / Görüp onunla cilveni yağım eridi / Niye karıştı benim sohbetime ol zibidi (Enderunlu Vâsıf). Bu iki senelik mâcerâda yakından yakına tecrübe ettikleri bir zibidi Yunan devletinin artık Boğazlar’da cihânın sulhünü müdâfaa edebileceğine inanabilirler mi? (Yahyâ Kemal).

Zibidilik: i. Zibidi olma durumu

Izbandut: i. ve sıf. (< İtal. sbandito) 1. Korku verecek kadar iri yarı kimse: Hanife, iki ızbandut herifin yanından geçeceği ânı mümkün olduğu kadar tehire çalışıyordu (Hâlide E. Adıvar). 2. eski. Rum korsanı. Izbandut gibi: Korkunç derecede iri, dev gibi: Merdivenin tırabzanını tuta tuta indim. Aşağıda karşıma ızbandut gibi bir uşak çıktı (Ahmet Râsim). Izbandut gibi bir herif ki heybetine bakan fırtınanın ondan korkması lâzım geleceğine hüküm verirdi (Hâlit Z. Uşaklıgil)..

[1] eccentric (n.) early 15c., "eccentric circle or orbit," originally a term in Ptolemaic astronomy, "circle or orbit not having the Earth precisely at its center," from French eccentrique and directly from Medieval Latin eccentricus (noun and adjective), from Greek ekkentros "out of the center" (as opposed to concentric), from ek "out" (see ex-) + kentron "center" (see center (n.)). Meaning "odd or whimsical person" is attested by 1817 (S.W. Ryley, "The Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor").

June 4 [1800].—Died in the streets in Newcastle, William Barron, an eccentric, well known for many years by the name of Billy Pea-pudding. [John Sykes, "Local Records, or Historical Register of Remarkable Events which have Occurred Exclusively in the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, and Berwick Upon Tweed," Newcastle, 1824]

eccentric (adj.)1550s, from French eccentrique and directly from Medieval Latin eccentricus (noun and adjective; see eccentric (n.)). Of persons, figurative sense of "odd, whimsical" first recorded 1620s. "Eccentric is applied to acts which are the effects of tastes, prejudices, judgments, etc., not merely different from those of ordinary people, but largely unaccountable and often irregular ..." [Century Dictionary].

eccentricity (n.) 1540s, of planetary orbits; 1650s, of persons (an instance of eccentricity); 1794, of persons (a quality of eccentricity); from eccentric (adj.) + -ity or from Modern Latin eccentricitatem, from eccentricus. Related: Eccentricities.

[2] punk (n.2) "worthless person" (especially a young hoodlum or petty criminal), 1917, probably from punk kid "criminal's apprentice," U.S. underworld slang attested by 1904 (with overtones of "catamite"). Ultimately from punk (adj.) "inferior, bad" (q.v.), or else from punk "prostitute, harlot, strumpet," attested by 1590s, of unknown origin. Related: Punkling. For the possible sense shift from "harlot" to "homosexual," compare the possibility in gay.

By 1923 used generally for "young boy, inexperienced person" (originally in show business, as in punk day, circus slang from 1930, "day when children are admitted free"). The verb meaning "to back out of" is by 1920.

The "young criminal" sense no doubt is the inspiration in punk rock — loud, fast, aggressive, and outrageous — which is attested by 1971 (in a Dave Marsh article in Creem, referring to Rudi "Question Mark" Martinez); widely popularized in 1976.

If you looked different, people tried to intimidate you all the time. It was the same kind of crap you had to put up with as a hippie, when people started growing long hair. Only now it was the guys with the long hair yelling at you. You think they would have learned something. I had this extreme parrot red hair and I got hassled so much I carried a sign that said "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE." I got so tired of yelling it, I would just hold up the sign. [Bobby Startup, Philadelphia punk DJ, Philadelphia Weekly, Oct. 10, 2001]

punk (adj.) "inferior, bad," 1896, also as a noun, "something worthless," earlier "rotten wood used as tinder" (1680s), "A word in common use in New England, as well as in the other Northern States and Canada" [Bartlett]; perhaps from Delaware (Algonquian) ponk, literally "dust, powder, ashes;" but Gaelic spong "tinder" also has been suggested (compare spunk "touchwood, tinder," 1580s).