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      • Reverse Dictionary DISABILITY - DISCOVERY
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      • Reverse Dictionary DO - DOLTISH
      • Reverse Dictionary DOMESTIC - DRAGONFLY
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      • Reverse Dictionary EXACERBATE - EXCELLENTLY
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      • Reverse Dictionary FOOD - FOOD POISONING
      • Reverse Dictionary FOOL - FOOLISHNESS
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      • Reverse Dictionary HONEST - HORROR-STRUCK
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      • Reverse Dictionary IMBECILE - IMPERVIOUS
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      • Reverse Dictionary. LIBEL - LION
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      • Reverse Dictionary MALL - MARMOT
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      • Reverse Dictionary MENTAL - MILDNESS
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      • Reverse Dictionary MONEY - MONEY ORDER
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WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE PAST

WORD OF THE DAY: IRACUNDULOUS

23/9/2021

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IRACUNDULOUS
 
ADJ.
inclined to anger, easily angered, irritable; irascible
- 1765

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin īrācundus (angry, enraged, furious) with diminutive formative -ulus, as in albulus, lentulus, etc.

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1765 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...LOVE is certainly, at least alphabetically
speaking, one of the most

   A gitating
   B ewitching
   C onfounded
   D evilish affairs of life ---- the most
   E xtravagant
   F utilitous
   G alligaskinish
   H andy-dandyish
   I racundulous (there is no K to it) and
   L yrical of all human passions : at
         the same time, the most
   M isgiving
   N innyhammering
   O bstipating
   P ragmatical
   S tridulous
   R idiculous
---- though by the bye the R should have gone first -- But in short
'tis of such a nature, as my father once
told my uncle Toby upon the close of a
long dissertation upon the subject ----
``You can scarce,'' said he, ``combine
``two ideas together upon it, brother
``Toby, without an hypallage
...."

From: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Laurence Sterne
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WORD OF THE DAY: SIFFILATE

22/9/2021

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SIFFILATE
 
VERB
to whisper; to hiss softly
- 1836 rare

ETYMOLOGY
irregularly from French siffler (to whistle, to whistle for)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1836 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...But before Smallbones was summoned, he had time to whisper to one or two of the conspirators "He's gone." It was enough; in less than a minute the whisper was passed throughout the cutter. "He's gone!' was siffilated above and below, until it met the ears of even Corporal Van Spitter, who had it from a marine, who had it from another marine...."

From: Snarleyyow; Or, The Dog Fiend
- Frederick Marryat

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WORD OF THE DAY: PIACULOUS

21/9/2021

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PIACULOUS
 
ADJ.
1. requiring expiation; sinful, wicked, blameworthy
- 1646 obs.

2. making expiation or atonement
- 1780 rare

ETYMOLOGY
from classical Latin piaculum (expiatory offering, act of atonement, action which calls for expiation, sin ) + -ous (suffix)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1646 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...The set and statary times of pairing of nails, and cutting of hair, is thought by many a point of consideration; which is perhaps but the continuation of an ancient superstition. For piaculous it was unto the Romanes to pare their nails upon the Nundinae, observed every ninth day; and was also feared by others in certain daies of the week...."

From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
Or Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents And Commonly Presumed Truths

- Thomas Browne
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WORD OF THE DAY: NOCENT

20/9/2021

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NOCENT
 
ADJ.
1. harmful, injurious, hurtful
- c1500 obs.

2. guilty, criminal
- 1559

NOUN
1. a guilty person, a criminal
- 1447 obs., often opposed to 'innocent'

2. (as 'the nocent') guilty people collectively
- 1563 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Middle French nocent (adj. & n.) or its etymon classical Latin nocent-, nocēns (injurious, guilty, guilty person) uses as adjective and noun of present participle of nocēre (to hurt, to injure)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1447 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Thys iuge ys brouht pat he wold me
Do forsakyn to ben an innocent,
That he me myht makyn a nocent!
Quod Almache ageyn: „knowyst not, wrecche,
Hou pat my power dothe astrecche
...."

From:  Legendys of Hooly Wummen 
- Osbern Bokenam
(Edited by Mary Sidney Serjeantson, 1938)


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WORD OF THE DAY: GIDDIFY

19/9/2021

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GIDDIFY
 
VERB
to make giddy; to daze; to confuse
- 1628

ETYMOLOGY
from giddy (adj.) + -fy (suffix)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1628 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Of endlesse Wandrings; that it leads us to
That sin, sometimes, which we abhor to doe:
And, otherwhile so strangely giddifies
The Reason, and trhe soules best Faculties;
That (as I said before) we doe not know
What in our selves to like, or disallow
...."

From: Britain's Remembrancer 
- George Wither

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WORD OF THE DAY: BISH

18/9/2021

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BISH
 
NOUN
1. a bishop
- 1927 humorous usage

2. a mistake, a blunder
- 1937 sl.

VERB
1. to 'bishop'; to administer the rite of confirmation to a person; to confirm
- 1875 obs. or arch.

2. to throw
- 1940 Aust. & NZ sl.

ETYMOLOGY
for noun 1 & verb 1 - shortened form of bishop (n. & vb.)
for noun 2 - origin unknown
for verb 2 - imitative

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1875 - To be bish'd...confirmed

From: Notes on Quaint Words and Sayings in the Dialect of
South Worcestershire
- A. Porson

EXAMPLE (for noun 2)
"...He's a silly little boy, Lucy! He's always making bishes like this!" Monica declared...."

From: The Sumner Intrigue
- Frank Swinnerton (1955)
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WORD OF THE DAY: MUABLE

17/9/2021

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​MUABLE
 
ADJ.
changeable, variable; fickle;
also, of a ship: unsteady

- a1393 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman and Middle French muable (subject to change),

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1393 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Here herte, here yhe is overal,
 And wenen every man be thief,
To stele awey that hem is lief;
Thus thurgh here oghne fantasie
Thei fallen into Jelousie.
Thanne hath the Schip tobroke his cable,
With every wynd and is muable
..."

From: Confessio Amantis
- John Gower


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WORD OF THE DAY: AMARITUDE

16/9/2021

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​AMARITUDE
 
NOUN
1. bitter feelings or sentiments; acrimony; resentment; also, the quality of being bitter to the mind or feelings; distress; anguish
- 1490 rare, chiefly poetic usage

2. a being bitter to the taste; bitter taste or flavour
- 1599 obs. 


ETYMOLOGY
from  Middle French amaritude (bitterness of feelings, emotional pain, bitterness of taste), from Latin amāritūdō (bitterness of taste, bitterness of expression or feelings, harshness), from amārus (bitter) + -tudo (-tude suffix)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1490 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...y hast charged vpon my sholdres all the grete euylles y I bere & supporte. thou haste absorbed me & reclosed in the grete see of amarytude..."

From: The Boke yf Eneydos
Compyled by Vrygyle,
Translated oute of Latyne in to Frenshe, and out of Frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me Wyllm Caxton


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WORD OF THE DAY: HUFTY-TUFTY

15/9/2021

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​HUFTY-TUFTY
also HUFTIE TUFTIE
 

ADJ.
swaggering, bragging
- 1596 obs.

NOUN
1. swagger, swaggering manners
- 1633 obs.

2. 'bravery', finery
- a1652 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
rhyming compound, from huff (n. ) and tuft (n.). (possibly in reference to tufts of feathers worn as ‘bravery’ or finery) + -y (suffix)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1596 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...I haue a tale at my tungs end if I can happen vpon it, of his hobby horse reuelling & dominering at Audley-end, when the Queene was there : to which place Gabriell [Harvey] (to doo his countrey more worship & glory) came ruffling it out huffty tuffty in his suite of veluet..."

From: Haue with You to Saffron-Walden; or, Gabriell Harueys hunt is vp
- Thomas Nashe
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WORD OF THE DAY: TIFFLE

14/9/2021

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​TIFFLE
 
VERB
1. to dress up, to adorn, to deck or trick out in a trifling or time-wasting way
- a1425 obs.

2. to busy oneself idly, to ‘fiddle’, to trifle; to potter about
- c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

3. to disorder, to disarrange, to entangle, to ravel
- 1811 chiefly Eng. dial.


ETYMOLOGY
for verb 1. - diminutive of tiff (vb. to attire, to dress, to deck out [obs.])
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FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1425 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...And in the our of risyng tifle thee not; forsothe renne thou bifore first in to thin hous, and there clepe thou thee to answer, and there pleie thou..."

From: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books
- John Wycliffe


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word of the day: ROBBERACEOUSLY

13/9/2021

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​ROBBERACEOUSLY
 
ADV
in a manner suggestive of robbers
- 1772 obs.
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ETYMOLOGY
from robber (n.) + -aceous (suffix) + -ly (suffix)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1772 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...It was broad daylight, but I did not know that housebreaking might not be still improving. I cried out, Who is there? Nobody answered. In less than another minute, the door rattled and shook still more robberaceously, I called again - no reply..."

From: Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory,
From the Year 1769 to 1797

- Horace Walpole
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WORD OF THE DAY: DIABOLIFY

12/9/2021

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​DIABOLIFY
 
VERB
to portray as diabolical; to represent as a devil; to denounce as evil or wicked
- 1657

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin diabolus (devil n.) + -fy

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1657 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...For though they know not well what they are, yet every man takes courage enough to handle them, and let in, and let out whom they please; one faction turns them against another, the Lutheran against  the Calvinist, and diabolifies him; and the Calvinist against the Lutheran, and superdiabolifies him..."

From: XXX Sermons Lately Preached at the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen Milkstreet, London to which is annexed, A Sermon Preached at the Funerall of George Whitmore, Knight, sometime Lord Mayor of the City
- Anthony Farindon


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WORD OF THE DAY: SCAMANDER

11/9/2021

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​SCAMANDER
 
NOUN
devious progress
- 1873

VERB
to wander about, to take a a devious or winding course
- 1864

ETYMOLOGY
apparently from the name of the river Scamander (Σκάμανδρος Homer),
in imitation of meander (vb.)


FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1864 - Scamander, to wander about without a settled purpose
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From: The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast" Expressions of High and Low Society
- John Camden Hotten

EXAMPLE
"...Isola had given up "scamandering." She spent her evenings quietly at home with her father, except when she declared a dinner at Richmond or Hampton or Greenwich necessary to dispel her dulness..."

From: Sweet Anne Page
- Edward James Mortimer Collins (1868)


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WORD OF THE DAY: COCKATRICE

10/9/2021

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​COCKATRICE
 
NOUN
1. a mythical reptile with a lethal gaze or breath, commonly said to be hatched by a serpent (or toad) from the egg of a cockerel or rooster; 
later, more generally: a mythical monster combining, or resulting from the combination of, a cockerel or rooster and a serpent (occasionally, another animal)
- a1382

2. a crocodile
- c1450 obs.

3. a malicious, treacherous, or destructive person
- 1508 rare

4. a prostitute, a whore; often used as a term of reproach or abuse for a woman
- 1568 arch. rare


ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman and Middle French cocatrice, cocatriz, coketriz, cocadris (crocodile, mythical animal of uncertain kind, aquatic reptile, enemy of the crocodile),
from Latin calcatric- , calcatrix (person who tramples upon)
from classical Latin calcat-, (past participial stem of calcāre , originally ‘to tread’, in post-classical Latin ‘to tread on the heels of, track, trace out’) + -trix;
apparently after ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων (ichneumon, literally ‘tracker, tracer out, hunter out’)


FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1382 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Vp on the eddere and the kokatrice thou shalt go; and thou shalt totrede the leoun and the dragoun..."

From: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate 

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WORD OF THE DAY: FIBLING

9/9/2021

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​FIBLING
 
ADJ.
addicted to telling little fibs
- 1681 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from O.E.D.: as if present participle of fibble v.,
from 
fib (n.) or fib (vb.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1681 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Thus has it cost me some pains (the Labout of six dayes, not Seven dayes, I protest) to answer the Six Months Abortive Throwes of a fibling, quibbling, fribling, fumbling Arch-Deacon..."

From: A Vindication of the Naked Truth, 
the Second Part, against the Trivial Objections and Exceptions, of one Fullwood, in a Libelling Pamphlet Leges Angliæ 
- Edmund Hickeringill
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WORD OF THE DAY: OMISE

8/9/2021

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​OMISE
 
VERB
to omit
- c1425 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from  Middle French omis, past participle of omettre (to omit),
from classical Latin 
omittere (to omit)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1425 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...rightly so we of hym have this hope that no thynge hath he omysid by hym that tochith grace, of that, that we seke here in thys passyng lyfe, as is the communyon of Crystis feith, and comrnunycacion of his sacramentis and namly insignys of a contrite herte by penaunce..."

From: The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew's Church in London
- Edited from the original manuscript by Norman Moore, 1886
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WORD OF THE DAY: BRAIN-SUCKER

7/9/2021

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​BRAIN-SUCKER
 
NOUN
1. a person who takes credit for or benefits undeservedly from the intellectual labour of others; a plagiarist, a parasite
- 1781

2. a person who or thing which feeds on brain matter; something regarded as harmful to the intellect
- 1907

ETYMOLOGY
from brain (n.) + sucker (n.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1781 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Ask those brain-suckers, the Booksellers...."

From: A Short History of the Westminster Forum
- David Turner

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WORD OF THE DAY: POBBIES

6/9/2021

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​POBBIES
 
NOUN
pieces of bread softened in milk, generally given to young children or the elderly when unwell; any food of a similar consistency
- 1848 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
alteration of pobs (pieces of bread softened in milk)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1848 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...The babby had been fed afore we set out, and th' coach moving kept it asleep, bless it's little heart. But when th' coach stopped for dinner it were awake, and crying for its pobbies. So we asked for some bread and milk, and Jennings took it first for to feed it; but it made its mouth like a square, and let it run out at each o' th' four corners...."

From: Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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WORD OF THE DAY: URBICARY

5/9/2021

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​URBICARY
 
ADJ.
belonging to a city, especially Rome
- 1665 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin urbicarius (of the city [i.e. Rome]),
from classical Latin urbicus (urbic adj.) + -ārius -ary


FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1665 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...And this the learned Petrus de Marcâ was so sensible of, that he saith, Ruffinus did rectissimè & ex usu recepto, very agreeably both to reason and custom, compare the Alexandrian and Roman Bishop in this, that he should have the power over the Diocese of Aegypt, by the same right that the Bishop of Rome had over the Vrbicary Diocese; or, saith he, ut Ruffinus-eligantissime loquitur, In Ecclesiis Suburbicariis, id est, in iis Ecclesiis quae decem Provin∣ciis Suburbicariis continebantur..."

From: A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion:
A Vindication of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Relation of a conference, &c. from the pretended answer by T.C.
- Edward Stillingfleet

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WORD OF THE DAY: GOATREL

4/9/2021

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​GOATREL
also GOATRILL 

NOUN
a young goat
- 1688 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from goat + - rel (suffix forming diminutives)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1688 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...A Goat, 1 yeare a Kid, or Goatrill, & alway after a Goat. The Wild Goat, is 1 a Fawne. And the Buck-Goat being gelt makes a Cheverell..."

From: The Academy of Armory, or, A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon containing the Several Variety of Created Beings, and how Born in Coats of Arms, both Foreign and Domestick
- Randle Holme
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