oojah capivvy

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. Pat: All right. Birkinshaw: 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.

1931, John Van Druten, London Wall, a Comedy in Three Acts

If that’s what you want to work for, right, let’s start, get the bibles out. ―Ooja ka pivi! commented Barnes, and added as an afterthought: Spas!

1975, Zulfikar Ghose, Crump’s Terms: A Novel, page 31

One might observe what usually happens to people who by chance listen to radio news in a foreign language: folk-etymological re-interpretation sets in immediately after apperception of the unfamiliar sound chain. The Sunday Times (11.2.62) had the example UJAHKAPIV (from Napolitanian AGIO CAPIT = HO CAPITO ="I've understood" which with British soldiers came to denote "anything of which the name was unknown").

[1981, Karl Sornig, Lexical Innovation: A Study of Slang, Colloquialisms, and Casual Speech, page 89