c 1550 - Doctor Doubble Ale in Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England see Example below From: Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England
Edited by William Carew Hazlitt Volume the Third, 1866 Doctour Doubble Ale P. 312
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? 1590 - see below From: A Vocabulary of Words Beginning with the Letter B
Compiled by W. Gee, 1863 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 3. bacon (slang) 4. liquor (dialect and slang) 5. mild weather (dialect) VERB 1. to wheedle, to cant 2. to act the sawney, to fool also SAWNY CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES noun 1: from Scot. local variant of Sandy, short for Alexander; the connexion of the other senses is doubtful a 1700 (for noun 2.) - A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modem of the Canting Crew, B.E.; "Sawny, a Fool. He's a meer Sawny, he is very soft." From: Stultifera Navis
The Modern Ship of Fools By William Henry Ireland, 1807 Section LI. Of Gentleman Fools. P. 226 from Greek γλυκυπικρόν, neut. of γλυκυπικρός (adj.), from γλυκύς sweet + πικρός bitter 1599 - Dyets Drie Dinner, Henry Buttes; see below from E-NED From: The Anatomy of Melancholy:
What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it. By Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) The Eleventh Edition, Volume II, 1806 Sect. III. Remedies Against Discontents P. 3 from hipp-, combining form of Greek ἵππος horse + Greek ϕίλος loving 1852 - Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume XLV; see Example below From: Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Volume XLV. January to June 1852 Tauromachia; Or, The Spanish Bull-Fights P. 535 perhaps from French cacographie (16th c.), or from medieval Greek κακογραϕία = bad writing; the analogous ὀρθογραϕία orthography, καλλιγραϕία calligraphy, and some of their derivatives, were used in classical Greek 1880 - as per E-NED and the Historical Thesaurus of English (Ninth annual address of the president to the Philological society, J.A.H. Murray); an older Example (1852) is shown below From: Philosophers and Actresses:
Scenes, Vivid and Picturesque, From the One Hundred and One Dramas of Art & Passion By A. Houssaye (translated), 1852 Jacques Callot P. 130 noun 1: from Old French revenant noun 2, 3: from pres. pple. of revenir to return c 1440 (noun 1) - The Old English Version of Partonope of Bloisl see below From: The Old English Version of Partonope of Blois Edited by Rev. W.E. Buckley, 1862 P. 105 From: Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
The Seventy-Sixth Volume, January to April 1886 Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miser Chapter VIII. What the Clintons Said P. 298 also IOBBERNOWLE, IOBBERNOUL, IOBERNOL, JABBERNOWL (dialect), JOBBERKNOWL, JOBBERNOL, JOBBERNOLL, JOBERNOLL CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES apparently from jobbard, jobard + noll, Old English hnol, head; but evidence of the historical connection is incomplete 1592 - Four Letters Confuted, Thomas Nashe; see below From: The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, Volume II. 1883-84 Foure Letters Confuted P. 219 From: Rookwood: A Romance
By William Harrison Ainsworth, 1878 Book the Fourth. The Ride to New York I. The Rendezvous at Kilburn P. 279 From: A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words,
By William Toone Second Edition, 1834 1530 - L'éclaircissement de la Langue Française, Jehan Palsgrave; see Example below From: L'éclaircissement de la Langue Française,
By John Palsgrave 1852 Edition From: Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect
Chiefly by R. Anderson Second Edition, 1815 Ballad XIII. The Happy Family P. 34 from Greek *τριχοτόµος (adj.) hair-cutting (implied in τριχοτοµεῖν to cut the hair) + -ist 1875 - Two Trips to Gorilla Land, Richard Burton; see Example below From: Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
By Richard F Burton Volume I. 1876 Chapter IX. P. 205 from gulp (vb.) perhaps in the combination gulp in 1802 - The Naval Chronicle see Example below From: The Naval Chronicle,
Volume VII Naval Courts Martial Authentic Account of the Trial of the Mutineers Late Belonging to His Majesty's Ship Temeraire P. 50 from Latin pavefacĕre to frighten 1658 - The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary, Edward Phillips;
"Pavefaction, a terrifying or making afraid" From: The Vision,
A Poem by Sir Fred. Morton Eden Bart addressed to the Rev. Jonathan Boucher Printed 1828 P. 28 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 2. the red-throated loon or diver, Gavia stellata CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES from scape (vb.) to escape + grace (n.), the etymological notion being ‘one who escapes the grace of God’ 1809 - translation of Le Sage's Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, Benjamin Malkin; see Example below From: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
Translated from the French of Lesage A New Edition Volume I, 1822 Book the Fifth Chapter the First History of don Raphael P. 165 |
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