THINKLINGNOUN
a petty or inferior thinker ...1816 nonce word ETYMOLOGY from think + -ling FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1816 - See Example below EXAMPLE "...All this and much more than can be expressed in a brief, rapid sketch would be accomplished by a proper Etymological Dictionary, which petty thinklings - quackish pretenders affect to despise as a mere school-book below the dignity of philosophy." From: Philosophic Etymology or Rational Grammar By: James Gilchrist, 1816 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933
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LONGILOQUENCENOUN
a speaking at great or excessive length; long-windedness, verbosity ...1836 rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin longus long (adj.) + loquentia speaking FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1836 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...Its real cause is the quantity they have to get through, which makes longiloquence impossible." From: The Journal of Henry Cockburn By: Henry Cockburn, 1836 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Porter, 1895 PAGGLEVERB
1. to bulge, to swell out as a bag; to hang loosely, to dangle ...c1590 obs. 2. to mend, to patch ...Bk1905 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY unknown FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1590 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...With strouting dugs that paggle to the ground, Shall serve thy dairy, if thou wed with me." From: Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay By: Robert Greene, c1590 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881 • The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888 • A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, Walter W. Skeat, 1914 |
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