SWOLTERY ADJ. sultry, sweltering ...1603 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from swolter, swalter, variant of swelter (n. a sweltering condition) + -y FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1603 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Ham. I shall sir giue you attention: By my troth me thinkes t'is very colde. Gent. It is indeede very rawish colde. Ham. T'is hot me thinkes. Gent. Very swoltery hote: The King, sweete Prince, hath layd a wager on your side, Six Barbary horse, against six french rapiers, With all their acoutrements too, a the carriages: In good faith they are curiously wrought..." From: The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke - William Shakespeare
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IRRITATORY ADJ. causing irritation; irritating ...a1656 rare ETYMOLOGY from irritate (vb. to stir up, to excite, to provoke, to provoke, or to rouse to some action) + - ory FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1656 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The other peradventure is sufficiently Grounded for Principles of Faith, yet is Weak, by reason either of some Passion, or of some irritatory and troublesome Humour in his behaviour..." From: Golden Remains, of the Ever Memorable, Mr. John Hales, of Eaton Colledge, &c. - John Hales BOODLEIZE VERB to bribe ...1883 US sl. obs. ETYMOLOGY from boodle (n. a number of people, animals, or things grouped together or considered collectively by the speaker or writer) + -ize FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1883 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Who Boodleized Murch?..." From: The Evening Critic (Washington, D.C.) (Headline) June 13, 1883 REBOANT ADJ. resounding, reverberating; loudly echoing ...1830 chiefly literary and poetic usage ETYMOLOGY from Latin reboant-, reboāns, present participle of reboāre (to re-echo, to resound, to call or cry in answer) from re- + boāre (to bellow) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1830 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Wert thou, and yet unheard. What if Thou pleadest still, and seest me drive Thru' utter dark a full-sail'd skiff, Unpiloted i' the echoing dance Of reboant whirlwinds, stooping low Unto the death, not sunk! I know At matins and at evensong..." From: Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind (Original title: Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind not in Unity with Itself) - Alfred Tennyson FRAGOR also FRAGOUR NOUN 1. a loud, harsh noise; a crash, a din ...1605 obs. 2. fragrance; a strong sweet scent ...1638 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY n. 1. from Latin fragor (noise, crash), from frag- stem of frangĕre (to break) n. 2. from Italian fragore = fragrore from Latin frāgr frāgrant-em, present participle of frāgrāre (to smell sweetly) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1605 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...For in this hight of fortvne are imbred, Those thundring fragors that affright the earth. From thence haue all distempratures their head: That bringes forth desolation, famine, d•arth, There certaine order is disordered: And there it is confusion hath her birth..." From: The Tragedie of Philotas - Samuel Daniel CHUNTER also CHUNNER, CHOUNTER, CHUNDER NOUN an impertinent, cheeky remark ...Bk1905 Eng. dial. VERB to mutter, to murmur; to grumble in a discontented or ill-tempered manner, to express discontent about trifles, to find fault, to complain incessantly; to have the last word in a matter ...1599 ETYMOLOGY apparently of imitative formation FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1599 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...but your heyfer, like a fullen beast, (because it would not be vltimus inter boues, be∣comes primus inter asinos) must〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉wander alone and chunner out an Heathenish conceit of descending into the world of soules poetically..." From: Master Broughtons Letters, Especially his last Pamphlet to and against the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, about Sheol and Hades, for the descent into Hell, answered in their kind. - Hugh Broughton Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe HELLZAPOPPIN' also HELL'S-A-POPPIN' ADJ. hectic, chaotic; extremely eventful, action-packed, exciting; ostentatious, flashy ...1945 colloq., orig. US ETYMOLOGY a colloquial pronunciation of hell is (a-) popping (events are unfolding in a chaotic manner); the use of one-word form was popularized by the title of the 1941 U.S. film Hellzapoppin' and the 1938 theatre musical Hellzapoppin FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1945 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The Detroits floundered hilariously into the world championship in seven hellzapoppin' games...." From: The Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune Dec 27, 1945 PRIMIPOTENT ADJ. most powerful ...1656 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin primipotent-, primipotens (first in power) (4th cent.), from Latin prīmi- , combining form of prīmus (prime adj.) + potēns (potent adj. powerful, having great authority) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - Primipotent (primipotens) of chief power From: Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting All Such Hard Words, whether Hebrew, Greek or Latin... as are now used in our refined English tongue - Thomas Blount FLAMMID ADJ. flame-coloured; red ...1610 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin flammidus (burning, fiery), from flamma (flame) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1610 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Also what Gemmes, as harde Adamants, viz. the Cenchros, Macedonicke, Cypricke, Siderite: the flammid Carbuncle, purple Amethist, greene Emeraulde, and Opall Paderas, with their Trineuned luster: the vyolet Hyacinth, Skie-coloured Saphire, Lustrie Diamonde, shining Topaz, starrie Calchedonie, sparkling Rubie, golden Chrysolite, splendid Asterite, various Achate, horny Corneol, greene Iasper, pellucid Onyx, cerule Tarqueis, candid Crystall, harde Blood-stone, attracting Loade-stone, white yellow and Falerne Agate..." From: Feudigraphia The Synopsis or Epitome of Surueying Methodized - William Folkingham NIMFADORO NOUN an effeminate man ...1600 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY From OED: from Italian nimfadoro (1598 in Florio), apparently from ninfa (nymph n.) + -adoro (compare -ator suffix), although the ending appears more typically Spanish than Italian. Compare Italian nimfarsi (1598 in Florio glossed ‘to trim, to smug, to trixie, to decke or spruce himselfe vp as a nimphe’) and †ninfare to adorn oneself (1585 in Garzoni) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1600 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Peace, you, ban-dogge, peace: what briske Nimfadoro is that in the white virgin boot there?..." From: Every Man Out of His Humor - Ben Jonson DOMABLE ADJ. easy to be tamed, tamable ...1623 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from late Latin domābilis (tamable) from domāre (to tame) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1623 - Domable. Easie to be tamed From: The English Dictionarie: Or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words - Henry Cockeram EXAMPLE "...That Gods righteous and holy children, who are both harmeless, and innocent doves, even as quiet and peaceable in the world as domable, or indomable doves are that sit upon their Columbaries, or other birds that perk themselves upon the highest or lowest branches, or as Dolphins in the Sea, which intend the Mariner no hurt nor harm, yet cannot the godly and the upright live at quiet for them in the world, for their arrows are dayly notched and upon their strings, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart..." From: Pelagos: Nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead. Or, An Improvement of the Sea, upon the Nine Nautical Verses in the 107. Psalm - Daniel Pell AVAILANT ADJ. advantageous, profitable; of beneficial efficiency ...c1420 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from avail (vb. to be effectual, serviceable, or of use) + -ant FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1420 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Thaire kyndes beth, oon is peche Armenye, Precox is next, the thridde is duracyne. But if this tree to sore in sonne drie Hepe erthe aboute and humoure vespertyne, Eke thing object the fervoure of declyne. A serpent skynne doon on this tree men lete Avaylant be to save it in greet hete..." (Their sorts are the Armenian, the Precox, and the cling-stone. If the tree be too sorely sun-dried, heap earth about it. Let anything placed as a protection ward off the heat. Men think a serpent's skin avails to save it.) From: Palladius On Husbondrie, Part 1 - Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius Ed |
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