From: The Abduction,
Or, The Adventures of Major Sarney A Story of the Times of Charles the Second Volume II. 1825 Chapter VIII. P. 168
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play on wag + staff From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais,
Translated into English 1653 Volume I Printed for the Navarre Society (no date shown) The Third Book of Dr Francis Rabelais P. 365 from Latin pallēscentem, pr. pple. of pallēscĕre to become pale 1657 - J. Renodæus' Medicinal Dispensatory, Richard Tomlinson; see Example below From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick
Composed by the Illustrious Renodæus, Chief Physician to the Monarch of France, and now Englished and Revised, By Richard Tomlinson of London, Apothecary, 1657 Book I Sect. 5. Of Medicinall Matters P. 349 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED VERB 1. to hiccup (American) 2. to sneeze (dialect) INTERJECTION an exclamation of contempt ... begone, away with you, go and be hanged also SNECK-UP, SNICCUP CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES noun 1: ? from snick (vb.) 'go hang' noun 2, 3: imitative; also see First Documented Use below 1623 - (for noun 1) The Praise of Hemp-Seed, John Taylor; see below From: A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions, etc., Robert Nares Volume II. A New Edition, 1867 From: Notes and Queries
A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc. Fifth Series - Volume Twelfth. July-December, 1879 P. 45 1683 - Witt Against Wisdom, or a Panegyrick Upon Folly (from Erasmus), White Kennett; see Example below From: Moriæ Encomium:
Or, A Panegyrick upon Folly Written in Latin by Desiderius Erasmus Done into English by White Kennett, Hans Holbeine Printed 1709 P. 20 from Latin approperāt- ppl. stem of appr-, adproperāre to hasten, hurry 1623 - The English Dictionarie, or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram;
"Approperate, to make haste" 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 ? possibly a fanciful combination of physi- + gunk (a dunce, a blockhead) + -us From: Willie Wabster's Wooing, Dorothea M. Ogilvy, 1868:
"Weel ken I he's nae Fysigunkus, But ready ay to hear the uncas." ? 1546 - A Dialogue Conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Pprouerbes in the Englishe Tongue, John Heywood From: Bothwell: A Tragedy
By Algernon Charles Swinburne Second Edition 1874 Act V. Scene VII P. 497 from ppl. stem of Latin consomniāre to dream of 1623 - The English Dictionarie, or an Interpreter of Hard English Words, Henry Cockeram;
"Consomnat, to dreame" from Latin appetītiōnem, noun of action from appetīt 1653 - Hieraspistes: A Defence by way of Apology for the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England, John Gauden; see Example below From: Hieraspistes:
A Defence of the Ministry and Ministers of the Church of England By John Gauden, 1653 The Anti-Ministerials Insufficiency P. 203 1888 - Across the Plains, Robert Louis Stevenson; see Example below From: Scribner's Magazine
Volume IV. July-December, 1888 The Education of an Engineer More Random Memories By Robert Louis Stevenson P. 638 also BALSTONE, BAUCYNE, BAUSEN, BAUSTON, BAUZON, BAWCYN, BAWSIN, BAWSON, BAWSONE, BAWSTONE, BAWSYM, BORESON, BOSON CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES DEFINITIONS ADJ. big, fat, unwieldy, swollen ...1796 Eng. dial. NOUN 1. a badger ...c1325 arch. 2. a fat, clumsy, or pertinacious person ...1607 arch. 3. a clamorous, noisy, empty-headed person ...1830 Eng. dial. 4. an ugly person; any ugly thing ...1888 Eng. dial. 5. a stupidly persistent man ...19C arch. from E-NED Middle English bausen, from Old French bausen, bauzan, the animal taking its name from the white mark on its face: cf.bauson-faced; (But in Fr., bausen, etc., has never been applied to the badger, and its being so used in English implies a much earlier use of the (adj.) than we have evidence of.)] c 1325 - (for definition 1); Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect;
see below From: Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century Edited by Richard Morris Published for the Early English Text Society, 1864 P. 48 Anglicized form of penseroso, from the title of Milton's poem Il Penseroso (1632), from obsolete Italian penseroso (1578 in Tasso Dialoghi ), now pensieroso (Florio 1598), from pensiere thought From: Martyria:
Or, Early Unitarian Times By William Mountford, 1846 Chapter X. P. 247 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 2. a ragged crew of unmannerly people, the lowest of the low; the rabble, riff-raff (Scot. & Nth.Dial.) 3. nonsense (dialect) also RAGABOSH, RAGABRASH, RAG-A-BUSS (Scottish), RAGGABASH, RAGGABRASH CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES apparently from rag (n.) with fanciful ending 1609 - Discovery of a New World, Or a Description of the South Indies, hitherto unknowne (a version in English of Bp.Jos. Hall's Mundus lter et Idem), John Healey; see below from E-NED From: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,
Volume XXV. 1829 Noctes Ambrosianæ No. XLIV P. 802 1536 - Hector Boece's History and Chronicles of Scotland, John Bellenden; see below From: The History and Chronicles of Scotland Written in Latin by Hector Boece Translated by John Bellenden Volume II. 1821 P. 274 From: Eyaggeliztes Eti Eyaggelizomenos
Or, The Evangelist Yet Evangelizing By Daniel Burston, 1662 To the Rigidest Dissenters of the Presbyterial Judgment P. 14 Meg of Westminster was a famous virago of the 16th century to whom allusion is frequently made in Elizabethan literature; see below From: Intensifying Similes in English By T. Hilding Svartengren, 1918 Chapter III. Similes otherwise referring to Colour, Size, the Surface and Substance of Things P. 281 and From:
A Woman Killed with Kindness and The Fair Maid of the West By Thomas Heywood Edited by Katharine Lee Bates, 1917 Notes P. 266-268 1605 - Of the Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon; see Example below From: The Works of Francis Bacon
Volume I. 1753 The Second Book of Francis Bacon Of the Proficience or Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human P. 75 from Latin lacrima tear + -ous 1490 - The Boke yf Eneydos, William Caxton; see below From: Caxton's Eneydos, 1490 Edited by W.T. Culley, and F. J. Furnivall Published for the Early English Text Society, 1890 P. 35 From: The Fasti of Ovid
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