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EXAMPLE From: A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant Edited by Albert Barrere, and Charles Leland, 1890
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ETYMOLOGY from bunger - (probably an alteration of bungle) + -some EXAMPLE From: The Convict Ship By W. Clark Russell Volume III. 1895 Chapter XLIII. She sees Captain Rotch and Mr. Nodder again. P. 269 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from pres. pple. of Latin veterascĕre to grow old EXAMPLE From: Three Sermons Preached Upon Severall Publike Occasions By John Gauden, 1642 An Act Sermon Preached at Oxford P. 136 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from pleasure vb. + -ance, or ? error for pleasance EXAMPLE From: The Christian Union, A Family Paper Edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, 1891 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from SL-FAR: "from Dando, a 'bouncing, seedy swell,' hero of a hundred ballads, notorious for being 'charged' at least twice a month with bilking" EXAMPLE From: Hodgson's National Songster; Or, Encyclopaedia of Harmony Published by Orlando Hodgson, 1832 P. 69 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from un + plausive from Latin plaus-, ppl. stem of plaudĕre to applaud + -ive EXAMPLE From: Mr, William Shakespeares Comedies Histories & Tragedies Published According to the True Originall Copies. Printed 1623 John Heminge, Henrie Condell. Troylus and Cressida P. 248 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from obsolete French potatif, -ive (adj.), from Latin pōtāt-, ppl. stem of pōtāre to drink + -ive EXAMPLE From: The Works of Francis Rabelais Translated from the French By Sir Thomas Urquhart ad Motteux With Explanatory Notes by Duchat, Ozell, and Others. A New Edition, Volume I. 1863 Book II. Chapter VII. How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY reduplication of tingle EXAMPLE From: Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, 1845 Randolph's Amyntas CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from French chilonique, from Chilon (Χίλων), one of the seven wise men of Greece, who in all his speeches and writings was very short CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Current Literature A Magazine of Record and Review Volume I, July-December, 1888 John Huxford's Hiatus - A Pathetic Love Story. P. 145 Note: SL-BAR has:
"PERNICATED DUDE (Canadian) a dandy who assumes a highly swaggering manner" CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY ? from pernickety also FULGROUS
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Pronunciation of FULGUROUS ETYMOLOGY from Latin fulgur lightning + -ous EXAMPLE From: John Lane's Continuation of Chaucer's "Squire's Tale" Edited from the Original MS. Version of 1616 By Frederick J. Furnivall, 1887 Pt. VIII. A Night-attack on Cambuscan's Camp. P. 127 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from dure (vb.) to last, continue in existence (archaic) + -ful EXAMPLE From: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser Edited by Francis J. Child Volume II, 1855 The Faerie Queene. Book IV. Canto X. P. 193 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS 4. a goose (obsolete slang) 5. the ear; the tip or lobe of the ear (dialect) 6. the fundament; the anus (dialect) 7. the head (American) 8. weak beer (dialect) VERBS to slip out; to escape unobserved from school or house (school slang) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY Perhaps the same as Tib, a shortened hypocoristic form of the female name Isabel; now rather rude or slighting (except playfully); also with dim. -y or -ie, Tibbie, a common female name in the north. EXAMPLE (for definition 1) From: Cheshire Gleanings By William E.A. Axon, 1884 William Hornby's Scourge of Drunkenness also INDULCIATE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from ppl. stem of Latin indulcāre to sweeten, from in- + dulcāre to sweeten, dulcis sweet EXAMPLE From: A Body of Practical Divinity By Thomas Watson, 1759 Of Assurance. P. 148 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Dwale Bluth Hebditch's Legacy and Other Literary Remains of Oliver Madox-Brown Edited by William M. Rossetti and F. Hueffer Volume I, 1876 Book II. Chapter III. Atropa Belladonna. P. 143 also CLOTTIMAULS
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY 'clotty' related to clot (vb.); with 'mauls' cp. 'mauley' slang for the hand, fist EXAMPLE From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 |
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