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ETYMOLOGY ? from firk (vb.) + toodle (vb., to hum or sing in a low tone, as to a baby, ? dialect) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Old English Plays Being a Selection From the Early Dramatic Writers Volume V. 1815 A Trick to Catch the Old One: A Comedy By Thomas Middleton Act IV, Scene I. P. 209 also CONCABLE, CONCHABLE, CONCHABELLA,
CONKABELL, CONKERBILL, KONKERBILL CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: People's Magazine: An Illustrated Miscellany For All Classes December 7th, 1867 The Three Giants, P. 174 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY reduplicated from noddy EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin prō̆pudiōsus shameful, infamous, from prō̆pudium a shameful action, from prō, pro- + pudēre to make ashamed: + -ous EXAMPLE From: Primitive Christianity: Or, The Religion of the Ancient Christians In the First Ages of the Gospel By William Cave, The Seventh Edition, 1728 Part II. Chap. V. Of Their Singular Continence and Chastity P.293 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Geomancie of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman Translated out of French into our English Tongue, by Francis Sparry, 1591 The Second Booke of Geomancie P. 105 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY irregular from stentor (from Greek στέντωρ, Hom. Iliad v. 785) EXAMPLE From: The Annual Register, Or a View of The History, Politicks, and Literature, of the Year 1762 Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 An Account of Books for 1762, The Doctrine of Grace, by William Bishop of Gloucester, P. 245 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Legendary Tales of the Highlands: A Sequel to Highland Rambles, Volume 3, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1841) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin salārium salary + -at EXAMPLE From: The Oceana Of James Harrington Edited by John Toland, 1737 P.167 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Greek ἔργον work + -phobia EXAMPLE From: Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Medicine. A Handbook for Students and Practitioners By Henry Hartshorne, 1881 Part I, Principles of Medicine. Section I. General Pathology. Neuro-Pathology. P.63 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS 5. a son (in E-COL only) VERB to dress carelessly or negligently; to be slatternly or slovenly (obsolete) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from E-NED noun: Cf. mab (vb.) and map, 17th century form of mop (n.); also Mab, short for Mabel verb: belongs to mab (n.) Cf. mabble, mob vbs. EXAMPLE (for definition 1) From: A Select Collection of Old English Plays Orginally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744 Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt, Vol. II, 1874 The History of Jacob and Esau Actus Quinti, Scaena Sexta. P. 253 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland Compiled By Raphaell Holinshed, Vol. III, 1577 Printed 1808 Edward the Sixt, sonne and successor to Henrie the eight. P.1023 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Scottish Songs, Ballads, and Poems By Hew Ainslie, 1855 P. 69 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from late Latin increpātōrius (Sidonius), from ppl. stem of increpāre to increpate (to chide, rebuke) EXAMPLE From: The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin, From the Earliest Accounts By Walter Harris, 1766 (Note 1: definition 2 (to awake) is not listed in E-NED)
(Note 2: there is also the hyphenated OUT-BRAID (vb.) which has a completely different meaning: to wrench, snatch, or pull out; to draw (a sword); to start, spring, or burst out; to dart out, to throw out, eject) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY altered form of abraid (vb to awake) = upbraid EXAMPLE (for definition 1) From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from dislike a. + -en, after like, liken: cf. L. dissimilāre, F. dissembler EXAMPLE From: The Winter's Tale By William Shakspeare Edited by Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, 1786 Act IV. Scene II. P. 98 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY ? From: Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Industrial School for Boys Of Michigan, 1900 Address. "That Ounce of Prevention". By Hon. H. R. Pattengill P.41 EXAMPLE From: The Quarterly Review Vol. LI, March & June, 1834 Art. VII. Greek-and-German Greek-and English Lexicography P. 178 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin inscius not knowing, ignorant (from in-, in- + -scius knowing) + -ous EXAMPLE From: An exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter By The Rev. Thomas Adams, Rector of St. Gregory's, London, A.D. 1633 Edited by James Sherman, 1848 Chapter III. Verse 5. P. 636 |
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