ADJECTIVE
tired, exhausted, very weary ...1886 Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
unknown
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
? 1886 - "...darned if she don't sim prid near twickered out"
 
From: A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect,
By: W.H. Long, 1886
 
SOURCES
• A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, W.H. Long, 1886
• The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905

ADJECTIVE
desirous of 'making water' or urinating ...1654 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin micturientem, pres. pple. of micturire to desire to urinate,
desiderative verb from mict-, minct-, mingere to make water
(desiderative - denotes a verb formed from another and expressing a desire to do the act by the root verb)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1654 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...which by the often drawing in of his breath, twisting his legs, and more ill-favour'd faces than ordinary, gave Sancho to perceive his condition very micturient, and cacaturient."
 
(cacaturient, from Latin cacaturio I feel the need to defecate)
 
From: Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot
By: Edmund Gayton, 1654
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933

VERB
to speak abusively or contemptuously of or to; to reproach; to vilify
..1649 now rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from medieval Latin opprobriat-, ppl. stem of opprobriare,
from Latin opprobrium, disgrace, reproach; cause of reproach
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1649 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...What they writt Hee Read T' opprobriate himself."
 
From: Trinarchodia, Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth, Henry the Fifth
By: George Daniel, 1649
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
 

NOUN
one who drinks with another; a fellow-drinker ...1731
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Old French compotateur,
from late Latin compotatorem,
from com- together + potare to drink
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1731 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...to miss of half our companions and compotators of syllabub..."
 
From: The Works of Alexander Pope
Letter VIII to John Knight, Aug. 23, 1731
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language,
Noah Porter, 1895

NOUN
a boaster, a braggart ...1589 obs,
 
ETYMOLOGY
Anglicized form of Italian glorioso,
from Latin gloriosus boastful
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1589 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...emptie vessells haue the highest sounds,
hollowe rockes the loudest ecchoes,
and pratling gloriosers, the smallest performaunce of courage..."
 
From: Menaphon; Camilla's Alarum to Slumbering Euphues...
By: Robert Greene, 1589
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
• A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881

NOUN
a place of sleep ...1600 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin somnifer inducing sleep + -y
(from somni- sleep + -ferre to bring)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1600 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Somnus, awake; unlocke the rustic latch,
That leades into the cave's somniferie..."
 
From: The Transformed Metamorphosis
By: Cyril Tourneur, 1600
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
 

NOUN
1. a dirty, clumsy, untidy, or slovenly person ...1776 Scot.
2. a great deal of nonsensical gossip ...Bk1866 Scot.
3, a person much addicted to gossip; a rash, noisy talker ...Bk1866 Scot.
 
VERB
1. to give hasty utterance to; to blurt out; to talk foolishly;
​to tell what ought to be kept secret ...1680 exc. Scot.
2. to make a noise in swallowing ...Bk1898 Scot.
3. to flow unsteadily as liquid from a bottle that is very full ...Bk1898 Scot.
 
ETYMOLOGY
vb. of onomatopoeic origin, with association of blurt, and perhaps of utter, mutter, etc.
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1680 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...If the Minister should blutter out any Errour or Undecency, and yet not restrain..."
 
From: Catholick Communion double defended by Dr. Owens
By; Richard Baxter, 1680
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
• The Dialect of Banffshire, with a Glossary of Words not in Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary, Rev. Walter Gregor, 1866
• An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language,
​John Jamieson, 1879-1887
• A Scots Dialect Dictionary, Alexander Warrack, 1911

ADJ.
full of sins, sinful;
later: bawdy; indecent, lewd ...1656 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Late Latin peccamen, peccamin sin + -ous
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - Blount Glossographia
Peccaminous full of sins
 
EXAMPLE
"...In regard of our peccaminous terrestrial Personalities here."
 
From: Divine Dialogues
By: Henry More, 1668
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
• The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, John Ash, 1795

ADJ.
of the weather: rough, boisterous, windy, rainy;
hence, impatient, irritable ...1672 nautical obs.
 
NOUN
tumult, confusion, bustle caused by excitement ...1732 obs. rare
 
INTERJECTION
an exclamation of impatience or indignation ...1682 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated extension of 'hurry'
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1672- see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...the wind was at east and blew hard and, as the seamen terme it, was thick hurry durry weather, which is wind and raine."
 
From: Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1672
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889
• A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881
• A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, A.L. Mayhew, 1914
• Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present,
​John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1891-1902
 

VERB
to do the reverse of assisting;
​to hinder, to obstruct ...1669 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from dis- + assist
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1669 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...My Brothers also were such, as in nothing
dis-assisted me from serving God."
 
From: The Life of St. Teresa
By: Abraham Woodhead, 1669 (translated from Spanish)
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933

VERB
to announce to others a piece of private luck or good fortune;
to boast about one's situation
​...1638 now rare or obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from the assumed prosperity of those who eat roast meat
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1638 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...at length the home-bred Chyna cryes roast-meat but th'other day sending his silly Ambassador..."
 
From: Some Yeares Travels into Africa & Asia the Great
By: Sir Thomas Herbert, second edition, 1638
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891
• The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Robert Hunter, 1879-1888
• Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1823
• Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present,
​John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1891-1902
• Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, James Main Dixon, 1891

NOUN
a penurious person; a covetous, miserable wretch ...1893 Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
origin obscure;
? from association of being pinched
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1893 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"She's a reg'lar Nanny pinch-pot, that'n, noo"
 
From: A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Northumberland
​and on The Tyneside
By: Oliver Heslop, 1893
 
SOURCES
• The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
• A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Northumberland and on The Tyneside, Oliver Heslop, 1893
 

NOUN
the dung of a dog or fox; hence, filth, dirt ...1647 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
VERB
1. of a dog or fox: to evacuate the faeces, to defecate; also said of a person ...c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. to void ordure; also, to produce something foul; to foul with dirty liquid; to daub with soft dirt ...1596 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
3. of a bird: to discharge excrement ...1679 Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
apparently aphetic from Old French descombrer (modern French decombrer) to relieve of a load
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1400 - "...boundes to scombre twyse..."
 
From: The Master of Game, Edward of Norwich, c1400
 
EXAMPLE
"...Where he and his Brother (that loves dauncing so well) scummerd out betwixt them an Epistle to the Readers against all Poets and Writers"
 
From: Have With You To Saffron-Walden
By: Thomas Nashe, 1596
 
SOURCES
• The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, John Ash, 1795
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, Walter W. Skeat, 1914
• Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language,
Noah Porter, 1895
• The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
 
 

NOUN
a twitch or jerk of the body; a twinge ...1571 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
 
VERB
1. to move, to stir, to make a slight noise; to start, to flinch, to wince
...1530 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
2. to put out, to extinguish, as a candle ...Bk1905 Ireland
3. to stop up, to fill ...Bk1905 Ireland
 
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps a variant of quitch 'Quetch', to move the body,
​by association with winch 'Wince';
or related to winch as quag is to wag
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1530 - Quynche, I styrre, je moune
I quynche, I make a noyse, je tynte

From: L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse
By: John Palsgrave, 1530
 
EXAMPLE
"...so manfull of mind as neuer seene to quinch at a wound,
or to smart at the paine"
 
From: Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland
By: Raphael Holinshed, 1576
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• A Glossary, or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Illusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc....., Robert Nares, 1888
• A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, Walter W. Skeat, 1914
• Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language,
​Noah Porter, 1895
• Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Thomas Wright, 1880
• The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
• Dictionary of American Regional English
 

also ENGASTROMITH
 
NOUN
one who appears to speak in the belly; a ventriloquist ...1598 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from French engastrimythe
from Greek engastrímythos, from en in + gastris belly + mythos speech
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1598 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...So all incenst, the pale Engastromith
(Rul'd by the furious spirit he's haunted with,)
Speakes in his wombe..."
 
From: The Divine Weeks and Works of Guillame de Saluste Du Bartas
Translated By: Josuah Sylvester, 1598
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The English Dictionarie or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, 
Henry Cockeram, 1647
• Glossographia Anglicana Nova, or, A Dictionary Interpreting such Hard Words....., Thomas Blount, 1656
• A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891
• Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955

VERB
to move about from place to place; to walk ...1846
 
ETYMOLOGY
back-formation from 'locomotion'
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1846 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...he throws the galls in, and a bed too in the hay,
​if you git too hot to locomote."
 
From: A Quarter Race in Kentucky and other sketches...
Edited by William Trotter Porter, 1846
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present,
​John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1891-1902

ADJ.
fearful, horrible, gruesome ...1561 now rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from obsolete English uggle horrible
(from Middle English uggen to inspire horror or disgust, to fear,
from Old Norse ugga to fear)
+ English -some; akin to Old Norse uggr fear
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1561 - See example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...a face darke, vglesome, vnpleasaunt, and to be shonned for yll."
From: The Book of the Courtier
Translated by Sir Thomas Hoby, 1561
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933

NOUN
a shaking ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
VERB
to shake or cause to shake; to rattle; to jumble...1398 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from 'rog' vb. to shake a person or thing + -le;
of obscure origin
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1398 - "...manere of roggeling and hurling..."
From: Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum
By: John de Trevisa
Translated 1398
 
EXAMPLE
"Ah varra nar gat roggled ta deeth i' that shandry"
From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
• The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905

ADJ.
fleeing ...1650 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fugientem pr. pple. of Latin fugere to flee
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1650 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...lest the fugient should first fly away, before the Fire could any way bring forth the persequent thing..."
(persequent = pursuing, following behind)
 
From: Fasciculus Chemicus: Chymicall Collections
Translated by Elias Ashmole, 1650
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
 
 

ADJ.
unwarlike; cowardly ...1602 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin imbellis unwarlike (from im- + bellum war) + -ous, after rebellious
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1602 - See Example below
 
EXAMPLE
" ...The voluntarie subiection of this their imbellious Countrie..."
 
From: Albions England, Revised and Enlarged
By: William Warner, 1602
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933