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ETYMOLOGY from Latin dētractōrius disparaging, slanderous, from dētractor: and -ory EXAMPLE From: The Differences of the Ages of Mans Life Written by Henrie Cuffe Sometime fellow of Merton College in Oxford, Ann. Dom. 1600 Printed 1607, P. 8
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ETYMOLOGY from Latin internigrāntem ppl. (adj.), from a verbal type *internigrāre to be black at intervals CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: International Temperance Conference. Melbourne 1880. Papers, Debates, and General Proceedings. Edited by H.G Rudd and H.T.C. Cox, 1880 The Religious Aspect of the Temperance Movement, By R.M. Grier, VIcar ofr Rugeley, and Prebendary of Lichfield also STERQUILINOUS (E-NED notes this as erroneous)
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin sterquilinium a dunghill, from stercus dung EXAMPLE From: Epistolae Ho-Elianae Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign By James Howell, the Eighth Edition, 1713 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY of obscure origin EXAMPLE From: Americanisms Old and New, John S. Farmer, 1889 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from distraction + -tious EXAMPLE From: Philosophical Transactions Edited by John Martyn (Londres), James Allestry (Londres), Henry Oldenburg Issues 133-142 An Account of Two Books. I. The True Intellectual System of the Universe, The First Part By R. Cudworth, 1678 P. 941 Scottish variant of FLAMFEW (a gewgaw, trifle, fantastic thing)
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from SC-JAM: 'Perhaps from English, flam an illusory pretext. However, it seems to be the same with Old English Flamefew the moonshine in the water.' From: A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch Charles Mackay, 1888 also LOBSTROPLOUS, LOBSTROP'LUS
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Rhymes of Northern Bards Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham Edited by John Bell, 1812 Swalwell Hopping. By J.S. of Gateshead Tune "Paddy's Wedding" P. 46 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin decumānus, variant of decimānus of or belonging to the tenth part, or the tenth cohort, from decimus tenth: also, by metonymy, considerable, large, immense EXAMPLE From: Tracts of the Learned and Celebrated Antiquarian Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Printed 1774 The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel More Precious than Diamonds Inchased in Gold dialect variant of "Pecksniff"
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: Essays, Critical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous By Stephen Frederick Williams, 1862 W. M. Thackeray P. 37 also CONDOGGE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY & EXAMPLE conjectured to be a whimsical imitation of concur (cur = dog); but no evidence has been found of its actual origin From: Sharpe's London Magazine A Journal of Entertainment and Instruction for General Reading. November 1845 to October 1846 Miscellaneous, P. 304 Devil's delight - a noise or row of any description
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: The Mysteries of London By George W. M. Reynolds, Volume I, 1846 Chapter CXVI. The Rattlesnake's History P. 358 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from the Hebrew proper name Nābāl in 1 Sam. xxv. 3, etc. EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Dutch kelder a cellar EXAMPLE From: The Works of Mr. John Cleveland Containing his Poems, Orations, Epistles, 1687 The King's Disguise Note: in E-COC (Cockeram), it is shown as 'discrepitate' - often to disagree
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin discrepāt-, ppl. stem of discrepāre to differ EXAMPLE (for definition 1) From: A Medical Dispensatory Containing the Whole Body of Physick Composed by the Illustrious Renodaeus, Englished and Revised by Richard Tomlinson, 1657 Of Plants. Sect. 4. Of Indigenous Calefactives Chapter LXII. Of Doronicum, or Leopards Bane P. 331 also PIZIE
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ETYMOLOGY from supernaculum, modern Latin rendering of German auf den nagel on to the nail, in phr. auf den nagel trinken to drink off liquor to the last drop EXAMPLE From: The Book of Snobs By William Makepeace Thackeray, 1856 Chapter XXXI. A Visit to Some Country Snobs CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: A Collection of Letters and Essays On Several Subjects Lately Publish'd in the Dublin Journal By James Arbuckle, 1729 Hibernicus's Letters. No. 35 Saturday, November 27, 1725 P. 284 |
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