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EXAMPLE From: The Roscoe Magazine and Lancashire and Cheshire Literary Reporter. Vol. I, 1849 Leaves From a Log Book, Chapter I
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Note: E-ASH also has 'belonging to a mother-in-law';
stepmother was once listed in old dictionaries as a definition for mother-in-law, but, as per E-NED, it is regarded as incorrect CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin novercālis, from noverca stepmother EXAMPLE From: The Metamorphosis Or, Golden Ass, of Apuleius Translated from the Original Latin by Thomas Taylor, 1822 Book the Tenth. P. 172 also ANTIPODIZE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY ? from Antipodes EXAMPLE From: Ashbee's Occasional Fac-Similes Vol. 2. Printed ? Mad fashions, od fashions, all out of fashions, Or, The Emblems of these distracted times. By Iohn Taylor, 1642 P. lxiv. also ROARIE, ROARY
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY for dewy: from Latin rōr-, rōs dew EXAMPLE From: The British Parnassus: Or, A Compleat Common-Place Book of English Poetry By Edw. Bysshe, Vol. I. 1714 Angel, P. 29 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from uproar (n.) EXAMPLE From: Around the World with a Magician and a Juggler, Unique Adventures in Many Lands of Baron Hartwig Seeman, "Emperor of Magicians', and William D'Alvini , Juggler, "Jap of Japs" By Hardin J. Burlingame, 1891 Chapter XIII. D'Alvini's Experiences in the West Indies CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY From E-NED: A parallel form to hicket, the difference being either that of two diminutive suffixes, or merely phonetic, as in the later hickop, hiccup. The explanation of the variant form in hich-, hitch-, is not clear; it is perhaps. to be sought in the dialect. equivalence of ch and k. Earlier form of hiccup. EXAMPLE From: Memoirs for the Ingenuous By Jean Cornand de La Crose, 1693 October, 1693. Letter XLI. To the Honoured Dr, Dickinson, of the Colledge of Physicians of London. P. 316 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin bifārius two-fold, double EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from popsy (n.), apparently a kind of nursery extension of pop (n. a term of endearment for a girl or a woman) EXAMPLE From: Aladdin II: Or, An Old Lamp in a New Light, An Original Opera-Bouffe By Alfred Thompson, Printed ?? First Performed at the Gaiety Theatre, Dec. 1870 Act I, Scene II. P. 22 also JUBBITY, JUBBLETY
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY the same word as Middle English jupartie hazard, peril, jeopardy (Chaucer) EXAMPLE From: The History of the Parish of Ribchester, in the County of Lancaster By Thomas Charles Smith, and the Rev. Jonathan Shortt, 1890 Rectors of Ribchester CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY Middle English ultimate from Latin vomere vomit- or frequent. Latin vomitare + -urient EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 E-TOO definition: (S. guma) a fellow, a man
also KYME CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY obscure; apparently the roof of akimed: confounded, struck speechless or silly EXAMPLE From: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited by John Dart, William Thomas, 1721 The Plowman's Tale. P 184 also FROPISH
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY ? from *frop, variant of frap vb. (to strike, to beat) + -ish EXAMPLE From: Celestina: Or, The Spanish Bawd,. A Tragi-Comedy Taken from the Spanish Play of Mateo Aleman, 1707 Act II. Scene I. P. 36 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin ambifārius two-sided, of double meaning + -ous EXAMPLE From: Poems on Various Subjects, By Thomas Sadler, 1766 The Unfortunate Batchelor: Or, Wife's Resentment. A Poem Found on Real Incidents. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Critical Review Or, Annals of Literature By Tobias George Smollett, Volume the Twenty-Fourth, 1798 Selections from Foreign Journals, P. 396 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin insipientem, from in- + sapientem wise, sapient. EXAMPLE From: The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes By William Prynne, 1643 That the Parliament and Kingdome are the Soveraigne Power. P. 85 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from mother + -ling EXAMPLE From: Novels and Tales by Charlotte Mary Yonge Volume XIV. 1881 The Dove in the Eagle's Nest Chapter XV. The Rival Eyrie. P. 214 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin dērogātōrius derogatory + -ous EXAMPLE From: A viewe of some part of such publike wants and disorders as are in the service of God, within her Majesties countrie of Wales, togither with an humble Petition, under this high Court of Parliament for their speedy redresse. Anno 1588. Edited by James O. Halliwell, 1861 A Supplication unto the High Court of Parliament CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from penny + father EXAMPLE From: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, Edited by John S. Farmer, 1906 Note-Book and Word-List CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin fracidus, from frac-, frax lees of oil EXAMPLE From: The Reformed Common-Wealth of Bees Presented in severall Letters and Observations to Sammuel Hartlib, 1655 P. 23 |
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