from dort (n.) sulkiness, sulks, ill humour (Scottish) + -y a 1605 - Poems, Alexander Montgomerie; see Example below From: The Poems of Alexander Montgomery
Edited by David Irving, 1821 Sonnets P. 95
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from Latin jocāt-, ppl. stem of jocārī to joke 1576 - A Panoplie of Epistles, Abraham Fleming;
see below from E-NED From: The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire
By John Nicholson, 1889 P. 95 a natural utterance 1577 - A Treatise Contayning a Playne and Perfect Description of Irelande, Richard Stanyhurst; see Example below From: The Bible Educator,
Edited by E.H. Plumptre Volume III. 1874 Bible Words P. 211 From: Dialect Notes
Publication of the American Dialect Society Volume III. 1905 Word-List from East Alabama from French vomiss-, lengthened stem of vomir to vomit 1536 - see below from E-NED
from Latin epulāris, from epulum feast 1678 - The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary, Edward Phillips; "Epulary, belonging to a Banquet." From: The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
Edited by Theodore Hook Part the Third, 1839 A Precious Family By George Raymond P. 407 from Nares: "Probably it meant that such a one coming too late to partake of the hare, had no better chance than to kiss the foot, and get nothing to eat." 1613-16 - Britannia's Pastorals, William Browne; see Example below From: Belgravia: An Illustrated London Magazine
Volume XLVIII. July to October 1882 The History of Kissing P. 207 from Greek πολύγλωττος many-tongued, speaking many languages, from πολυ-, poly- + γλῶττα tongue 1861 - Lectures on the Science of Language, Friedrich Max-Muller; see Example below From: Lectures on the Science of Language
Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain In April, May, and June, 1861 By Max Muller, 1861 Lecture IV. P. 130 from lob (n.) a country bumpkin, a clown, a lout + cock a 1553 - Ralph Roister Doister, a Comedy; Nicolas Udall; see Example below From: English Reprints
Roister Doister, written before 1553 By Nicolas Udall Edited by Edward Arber Printed 1869 Act III. Scene II P. 44 apparently from mis (adj.) + woman 1528 - The Parable of the Wicked Mammon, William Tindale; see Example below From: The Works of the English Reformers:
William Tyndale and John Frith Edited by Thomas Russell Volume I. 1831 The Parable of the Wicked Mammon P. 107 From: The Olden Time Series
Gleanings chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts Edited by Henry M. Brooks, 1886 Literary Curiosities P. 88 from grubber (n.) an eater, a feeder From: Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens (1861) Chapter XI P. 263 CAGMAG ADJECTIVES 1. squeamish, dainty about one's food ...19C Eng. dial. 2. inferior, second-rate, spurious; unwholesome, decaying; coarse, worthless, rubbishy ...1859 Eng. dial. NOUNS 1. a tough old goose, not fit for eating; an inferior breed of sheep ...1771 Eng. dial. 2. a plain or slovenly woman ...L18 sl. 3. unwholesome, decayed, or loathsome meat; offal ...1847 Eng. dial. or vulgar 4. bad, unwholesome food; refuse of any kind; anything worthless, valueless, or rubbishy; rubbish; scraps; odds and ends ...1851 sl. 5. a gossip, a newsmonger; a pert, meddling woman or girl ...19C Eng. dial. 6. a quarrelsome person ...19C Eng. dial. 7. chatter, idle talk; gossip; an unsettled argument ...19C Eng. dial. 8. a practical joke, mischief ...19C Eng. dial. 9. a predicament, a fix, hobble ...19C Eng. dial. 10. a term of opprobrium applied to persons; a loose character; a disreputable old woman; a simpleton, a noodle ...19C Eng. dial. VERBS 1. to quarrel, to speak abusively ...19C Eng. dial. 2. to nag, to grumble at ...19C Eng. dial. 3. to loaf, to loiter about ...Bk1898 Eng. dial. 4. to keep company; to pay addresses to; to court ...Bk1898 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY apparently a word of dialectal origin, widely used in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and adjacent counties: of uncertain derivation FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1771 - (for noun, definition 1) A Tour in Scotland, Thomas Pennant; see Example below EXAMPLE From: A Tour in Scotland
By Thomas Pennant The Second Edition, 1772 From: A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch
By Charles Mackay, 1888 P. 80 from SL-HOT:
'so called from the rattle formerly used by vagrants to make a rattling noise and attract attention" from E-NED: of obscure formation; the original sense is perhaps ‘filly’ (cf. Welsh ffilawg filly, wanton girl, in Salesbury 1547 filoc, which may be an early adoption from English). The word may be from filly + -ock, or represent (with Northern pronunciation) an Old English *fylece wk. fem., corresponding to Old High German fulihha: —Old Teutonic *fulikôn-, f. *ful-, fol- ? c 1450 - Hoccleve's The Letter of Cupid to Lovers see below From: Hoccleve's Works The Minor Poems Published by the Early English Text Society 1892 XIX. The Letter of Cupid to Lovers, His Subjects P. 38 From: The Literature of Roguery
By Frank Wadleigh Chandler Volume I. 1907 Chapter III. The Anatomies of Roguery. I. Beggar Books P. 88 from Latin nix snow 1623 - The English Dictionarie, or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram;
"Nixious, white as snow" pa. pple. of freeze (vb.) c 1250 - Genesis. The Story of Genesis and Exodus, an Early English Song; see below From: The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about A.D. 1250 Edited by Richard Morris Published for the Early English Text Society, 1865 P. 4 From: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey
Complete in One Volume, 1829 Suppressed Poems P. 724 from prim (adj.) + -osity a 1839 - Memoirs, as Related by Herself in Conversations with her Physician, Lady Hester Stanhope; see Example below From: Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope,
as Related by Herself in Conversations with her Physician Second Edition. Volume II. 1846 P. 25 |
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