vaccinated with a Victrola needle



vaccinated with a Victrola needle

Someone who chatters incessantly. Victrola, a division of R.C.A. Victor, was a brand of phonograph players. Since phono records were played with needles that picked up the sound vibrations in the record's grooves, to be vaccinated with a Victrola needle, as the joke implied, was to be inoculated with the gift of nonstop gab.
See also: needle, vaccinate

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Hazan-Turkish
AdlaiAD-lay (English), AD-lie (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
KÁZmÉR-Hungarian
Stanimir-Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Medieval Slavic
Ruslanroo-SLAHN (Russian)Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Cheche
Jacinthezha-SENTFrench