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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: NOBBLERIZE

30/4/2021

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NOBBLERIZE
also NOBBLERISE
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VERB
to drink alcohol, especially in company or as a frequent practice; to drink 'nobblers' ...1847 obs. Aust. sl.

ETYMOLOGY
from nobbler (n. a small quantity of alcoholic drink) + -ize

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1847 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Yesterday a woman named Maria King alias Sullivan, was brought before the Mayor's Court, charged with having made rather free with the pockets of a man of the name of John Coombes, whilst he was comfortably nobblerizing in the William Tell, on Monday evening..."
From: The Port Phillip Gazette
​Wed 30 June 1847, Page 2  - Domestic Intelligence, "A Light-Fingered Lady"
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WORD OF THE DAY: PEAGOOSE

29/4/2021

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PEAGOOSE
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NOUN
a dolt, a fool; a simpleton, a silly fellow ...1606 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin;
possibly an alteration 
of peak-goose (n. a dolt, a fool), or humorously from pea (n. a peafowl) + goose (n.) after peacock

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1606 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Your Lordship has the right garbe of an excellent Courtier, respects a Clowne, supple ioynted, courtesies a verie peagoose; tis stiffe ham'd audacity that carries it; get once within their distance, and you are in their bosoms instantly..."
From: Monsieur D'Oliue
A Comedie, as it vvas sundrie times acted by her Maiesties children at the Blacke-Friers
- George Chapman
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WORD OF THE DAY: YEVERY

28/4/2021

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YEVERY

​ADJ.
1. very hungry; ravenous ...1531 rare Sc. & Eng. dial.
2. greedy, voracious; eager, anxious ...1896 rare Sc. & Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
from yever (adj. greedy, gluttonous, covetous) + -y

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1531 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...satt with litill displeseir, and gif thai wer skalit, vtheris, quhilkis wer moir ȝevery [1821 yevery] and tvme, suld lycht in thair rowmes..."
From: The History and Chronicles of Scotland
Written in Latin by Hector Boece

Translated by John Bellenden
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WORD OF THE DAY: MOLESTUOUS

27/4/2021

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MOLESTUOUS

​ADJ.
troublesome, burdensome, annoying; troubled ...a1572 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
irregularly from classical Latin molestus (troublesome, burdensome, annoying) + -uous

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1572 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...We acknowledge, O Lord, that afflictions are molestuous, noisome, and hard to be borne with of frail flesh, but Christ Jesus hath suffered heavier torments forus, and we have deserved more than we sustain, who so oft have merited the very hells..."
From: The Book of Common Order 
- John Knox
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WORD OF THE DAY: RIPSTAVER

26/4/2021

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RIPSTAVER
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NOUN
an impressive, exceptional, or first-rate person or thing; something or someone who is exceptionally remarkable in appearance, quality, strength, etc. ...1828 US colloq.

ETYMOLOGY
from rip (vb. to tear, pull, or cut away from something else forcefully or vigorously) + stave (vb. to break up (a cask) into staves; to break into and let out the contents_ + -er

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1828 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...She beheld him striding down the street, lustily exclaiming to himself, ‘She’s a ripstaver, so help me Davy Rachel!’..."
From: The Bower of Taste
A Boston magazine edited by Mrs. Katharine A. Ware
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WORD OF THE DAY: HOBHOUCHIN

25/4/2021

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HOBHOUCHIN
also HOBHOWCHIN​

NOUN
an owl ...1682 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
from hob (n. a variation of the Christian name Robert or Robin, hence formerly a generic name for a rustic, a clown) + houchin (n. an owl)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1682 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...How would you sneak, vile Souls, if at the Barr,
My daily sport, you met with horrid Warr?
How would you stand a tedious Chanc'ry Hearing,
If poor Hobhowchin puts you in this fearing?
How would your hearts misgive to bide a Triall,
No Friend at Hand, nor in your Purse a Ryall?
..."
From: Le Lutrin an Heroick Poem
- Nicolas Boileau-
Despréaux
Translated by N.O.
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WORD OF THE DAY: FIDFAD

24/4/2021

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FIDFAD
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ADJ.
1. frivolous, fussy, petty ...1830
2. insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Am. sl.

NOUN
1. one who gives fussy attention to trifles; one who is over-nice and particular; a fastidious person ...1754
2. a petty matter of detail, a crotchet, a trifle ...1875
3. a slow pace ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.

VERB
to go slowly; to waste time; to fuss, to trifle, to potter about ...Bk1875 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
short for fiddle-faddle (n. adj. & int.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1754 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...The eldest of my cousins is a very jolly free-hearted girl, and so great an enemy to all kinds of form, that you seldom see her with so much as a pin in her gown; while the youngest, who thinks in her heart that her sister is no better than a slattern, runs into the contrary extreme, and is, in everything she does, an absolute fidfad. She takes up almost as much time to put on a gown, as her sister does to dirty one..."
From: The World
No. 95. Thursday, October 24, 1754
:To Mr. Fitz-Adam."
Edited by Edward Moore

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WORD OF THE DAY: SECTIUNCLE

23/4/2021

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SECTIUNCLE
also SECTIUNCULE​

NOUN
1. a small section ...1838 rare
2. a small, insignificant religious body; a little or petty sect ...1851 rare

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin type *sectiuncula, a diminutive of sectiōn-em 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1838 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...I think you will not find the manuscript very difficult to make out, though it is strangely cut in pieces and patched. I have divided it all through into sectiuncules, occupying generally from half a page to a whole one..."
From: Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott of Abbotsford: With Selections From His Correspondence
- Robert Ornsby, 1884
Taken from correspondence by W. E. Gladstone, Esq., M.P. to J. R. Hope, Esq.
House of Commons: July 18, 1838
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WORD OF THE DAY: CIRCUMFLORIBUS

22/4/2021

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CIRCUMFLORIBUS

​ADJ.
flowery and long-winded, full of elaborate language ...1739 obs. humorous nonce word

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin circum + flōribus, ablative plural of flōs (flower)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1739 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...Everything after him was dull and heavy; much circumfloribus stuff was talked of on the Court side. They might have spared their breath; their convincing argument was in their pockets - not on their tongue..."
From: The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany
Edited by Augusta Hall
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WORD OF THE DAY: GOLCONDA

21/4/2021

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GOLCONDA

​NOUN
a place or thing full of riches, or regarded as a source of something fine, precious, or valuable; a source of great wealth; also a fortune of the type represented by the Golconda diamonds ...1833

ETYMOLOGY
from Golconda (also Golkonda), a historical region in southern India and its capital city, which was once a major centre for diamond mining and trade; 
in the late 16th century, the city of Golconda was replaced as the capital by the newly-founded Hyderabad, which continued the diamond trade;

Golconda ceased to be the official name of the region in the late 17th century

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1833 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...In the mean time my eyes were directed to every part of the room, which appeared to my ignorance as a golconda of wealth and luxury, There were few things which I had seen before, but I had an innate idea that they were of value..."
From: Metropolitan Magazine
"Jacob Faithful"
- Frederick Marryat
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WORD OF THE DAY: ATTEDIATION

20/4/2021

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ATTEDIATION

​NOUN
the act of wearying or the fact of being wearied ...1485 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from  obsolete French attédiation, from attaediāt- from at- = ad- (to) + taedium (weariness)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1485 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...For the moste parte of this book is made to thonour of the frēssh men and for prouffyte of euery man and after the desyre of the reder and herer there shalle be founden in the table all playne the mater of whyche the persone shal haue desyre to here or rede wythoute grete atedyacyon by the playsyr of god to whome I submytte al myn entēte to write no thyng that ought to be blamed  ne but that it be to the helthe & sauacion of euery persone..."
From: Thystorye and Lyf of the Noble and Crysten Prynce Charles the Grete Kynge of Frauuce
- Translated by William Caxton
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WORD OF THE DAY: DAY-RED

19/4/2021

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DAY-RED

​NOUN
the red of the break of day; the rosy dawn; daybreak ...c1000 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from OED:
Apparently cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch dagheraet , dageraet (Dutch dageraad ), Middle Low German dāgerāt , dāgerēt , dāgerōt , Old High German tagarōd , tagarōt , tagarōta , tagarōti (Middle High German tagerāt , (also) tagerōt ) from the Germanic base of day (n.) + a second element of uncertain and disputed origin

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1000 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...Þæt leoht ðe we hatað dægered cymð of ðære sunnan þonne heo upweard bið..."
From: Ælfric's De Temporibus Anni 
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WORD OF THE DAY: BIGSIE

18/4/2021

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BIGSIE
also BIGSEY, BIGSY

​ADJ.
1. having an exaggerated sense of one's own importance; arrogant, pretentious, conceited, proud ...1881 Sc. colloq.
2. rather large ...Bk1898 Sc. 


ETYMOLOGY
from big (adj.) + Scots -sie, a suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘somewhat, rather’

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1881 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...There is a story told of a certain tailor known in his then immediate neighbourhood as a ‘gey bigsie kin' o' bodie’..."
From: The Aberdeen Weekly Journal
Sept. 1881
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WORD OF THE DAY: SNARLEY-YOW

17/4/2021

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SNARLEY-YOW

​NOUN
a discontented, litigious grumbler ...1867 nautical usage

ETYMOLOGY
from Snarleyyow, the name of the dog in Frederick Marryat's novel. Snarleyyow, or the Dog-Fiend (1837)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1867 - Snarley-yow, a discontented, litigious grumbler. An old guard-ship authority who knows when to play the courtier
​From: The Sailor’s Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms
- William Henry Smyth
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WORD OF THE DAY: WORK-BRITTLE

16/4/2021

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WORK-BRITTLE

​ADJ.
eager to work, earnest or intent on work, industrious, energetic ...1647 Eng. & Amer. dial. rare

ETYMOLOGY
either from work (n.) or work (vb.) + a second element of uncertain identity (possibly brittle adj.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1647 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...She laieth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff Prov. 31.19. But why this? And what need she be so work brittle, being a Queen?..."
From: A Commentary or Exposition upon all the Epistles and the Revelation of John the Divine
- John Trapp
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WORD OF THE DAY: LOBBISH

15/4/2021

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LOBBISH

​ADJ.
characteristic of a 'lob' or rustic; clownish, loutish ...1567 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from lob (n. a country bumpkin, a clown, a lout) + -ish

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1567 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...O that we could him finde,
We would him make, for feare to quake
That loute of lobbishe kinde.
My name is lust, & let him truste
That I will haue redresse,
For thou and I, will make him flie,
Mine oulde friende Sturdines
..."
From: A New and Mery Enterlude, Called the Triall of Treasure newly set foorth, and neuer before this tyme imprinted 
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WORD OF THE DAY: EXULATE

14/4/2021

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​EXULATE

​NOUN
a person sent into or living in exile; a person compelled or choosing to live in a foreign country or a place not regarded as home ...c1470 obs.

​VERB
to banish, to exile; to go into exile; to be in exile ...1535 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ex(s)ulātus, past participle of ex(s)ulāre (to be in exile)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1470 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...Thre hundreth eke. iii. score and one full clere,
The commons rose an hūdreth thousād amoūted
Of Kent and Essex, whiche that tyme surmounted
The kynges power and all the hie estates,
For whiche the lordes fled then as exulates,
And lefte the kyng alone [then] in the toure
With tharchbyshop of Cauntorbury there so,
And the priour to been his gouernoure
..."
From: The Chronicle of Iohn Hardyng. Containing an Account of Public Transactions from the Earliest Period of English History to the Beginning of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth
Together with the Continuation by Richard Grafton
- John Hardyng
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WORD OF THE DAY: TERGIVERSANT

13/4/2021

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TERGIVERSANT

​ADJ.
tergiversating, shuffling, evasive, shifty ...1710

​NOUN
one who tergiversates; a turncoat, a renegade ...1833

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tergiversānt-em, present participle of tergiversārī (to turn one's back, to shuffle, to practise evasion)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1710 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...And with this regard the Fourth, not yet reaching the Nature of the Fifth or the Love-Concord, bears a peculiar Analogy to the Case of a Future Bride, but yet under her First Courtship, and at first Opposite Recusant and Tergiversant, till by orderly Process she may become round upon again with full Advantage and be obtain'd with full Consent in Union and Accord of Love..."
From: The British Apollo, or, Curious Amusements for the Ingenious, To which are Added the most Material Occurrences Foreign and Domestick.
From Wednesday May 3d. to Friday May 5th, 1710.
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WORD OF THE DAY: MIMINY-PIMINY

12/4/2021

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MIMINY-PIMINY

​ADJ.
ridiculously delicate, precise, or affected; finicky, over-refined ...1815 obs.
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​NOUN
finicky or affected writing; verbosity, prolixity ...1818 obs.

​INTERJECTION
a meaningless expression used by children in their games ...Bk1886 Eng. dial.
​

ETYMOLOGY
an alteration of niminy-piminy (adj. mincing, affected), possibly after mim (adj. reserved or restrained in manner or behaviour especially in a contrived or priggish way)
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FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1815 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"..."All the better, child - all the better," replied sir Ferdinand; "it is from the want of plain speaking that vice stalks aboard, and your miminy-piminy fears of hurting the feelings, forsooth, of a fellow who knows himself to be acting like a rascal, which brings half the jobs to Doctors' Commons..."
From: Celebrity; or, the Unfortunate Choice. A Novel.
- Mrs. Mary Susanna Pilkington ​
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WORD OF THE DAY: OOZLE

11/4/2021

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​OOZLE

​NOUN
1. a blackbird ...1804 
2. the windpipe ...1867 Eng. dial.

​VERB
1. of smoke: to trickle, to move slowly ...1883 US rare
2. to wheeze ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
3. to ooze ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
4. to move slowly or lazily ...1934 Aust. & NZ

ETYMOLOGY
for vb. - from ooze (vb. to emit or give out slowly or gradually) + -le

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1804 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...The Bird soon brought, the Stranger ey'd it,
And then exclaim'd, Old Nick betide it;

"What have we here? By Heav'ns, a Grouse;
"Why, Sir, I would not give a louse,
."For twenty such, and for this reason.
"BLACK GAME is now quite out of Season."
Quoth Reynard, "'tis a Cock believe me."
"A Cock! A Grouse, you can't deceive me;-
"A little short-beak'd heath-bred Oozle,
"A Cock indeed, - a flat Bamboozle!
"To see the diff'rence needs no skill, -
"If 'tis a Cock, pray where's his Bill?
"His fine long Bill? - Here's no such thing!
"So, Master Fox, 'tis all a fling!.."

From: Scripscrapologia: Or, Collins's Doggerel Dish of All Sorts. Consisting of Songs Adapted to Familiar Tunes
- John Collins
The Fox and His Guest

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