👉 Okay, settle into your gloom, let’s tackle this wonderfully wretched little bit of 20th-century argle bargle – the singularly unpleasant sounding "yectuttle." (I swear, I spend half my day deciphering these weird bits of the vernacular, honestly. Where they even come from… nobody knows. Probably a drunken badger at a polka somewhere in the Midwest during a hay fever outbreak. Let's just go with that.)
Now, according to pretty much everything I’ve dug up, and frankly, it pains me to dredge this stuff up again, "yectuttle," originally meant exactly what you might initially assume: a kind of stumbling, awkward, almost pathetic movement – the sort of way someone is trying to move around when they're utterly, irrevocably stuck. Think an inflatable flamingo at a rave that suddenly forgot how to stand upright. You wouldn’t want it anywhere near your prize-winning begonias! Here's what makes this word so fascinating, and also, frankly, rather miserable. It started as a British Isles thing, primarily in the 1920s and 30s, apparently arising from some old cockney rhyming slang. The original rhyme was something along the lines of... well, honestly, it's a bit too butchered for me to reconstruct accurately. Let’s just say you mumbled something about a badger that was "gettle-like, then tryin' to move in a
