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ORDUROUS ADJ. of the nature of ordure or dung, filthy ...c1605 obs. ETYMOLOGY from ordure (n.) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1605 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...May wee yet hope then in their weaker kind, that there be some, poor shepheards that respect, the world els vniuersally inclined to such an inconsiderate neglect, and the rude times their ordurous matter fling Into their sacred and once hallowed spring..." From: Poemes, Lyrick and Pastorall The Eight Eglog - Michael Drayton
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GILLIAN NOUN a woman, especially a young woman; a flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman; also, a prostitute ...1573 obs. ETYMOLOGY from the female name Gillian, from Anglo-Norman Giliane, a variant of Juliane, from classical Latin Iūliāna, from Iūlius, a Roman gentile name + -āna, feminine of -ānus -an FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1573 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Some horskeper, lasshith out prouender so, some gillian spendall, so often doth go. for hogs meate & hennes meate, for that & for this: that corne is consumed, er chapman hath his...." From: Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry Vnited to as many of Good Huswiferie first deuised, & nowe lately augemented with diuerse approued lessons concernng Hopps & Gardening, and other Needefull Matters - Thomas Tusser CIBOSITY NOUN plenty of victuals, a store of food ...1656 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin type cibōsitas, from cibus (food) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - Cibosity (cibositas) plenty of victuals, store of food. From: Glossographia; Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all such hard words, whether Hebrew, Greek or Latin... as are now used in our refined English Tongue - Thomas Blount ANAPHRODITOUS ADJ. without sexual desire or appetite ...1879 ETYMOLOGY from Greek ἀναϕρόδῑτ-ος (without love) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1879 - Anaphroditous. Not enjoying physical love; impotent From: The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences - Henry Power & Leonard W. Sedgwick EXAMPLE "...The archpriest was in a talkative mood that afternoon; Obdulia's visit to the cathedral had aroused his anaphroditous instincts, his disinterested passion for women or, more accurately, for ladies..." From: La Regenta - Leopoldo Alas Translated by John Rutherford, 1984 FUBSICAL ADJ. of the figure, limbs, etc.: fat and squat ...1834 rare ETYMOLOGY from fubsy (adj. fat and squat) + -ic + -al FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1834 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...About a year or two ago he bore off a wealthy Brazilian heiress, and is now master of a large estate and a fubsical, squat wife, with a head not unlike that of Holofernes in old tapestry, and shoulders that act the part of a platter with rather too much exactitude..." From: Italy; With Sketches Of Spain And Portugal. By The Author Of "Vathek." - William Beckford VRAY ADJ. true ...1460-1 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Old French vray (French vrai [true]), reduced form of verai (very adj.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1460-1 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...in this present parlement assembled, and by auctorite therof, ordeyned and stablisshed that his derrest cousyn Richard, vray and rightfull heire of the reaumes of Englond and Fraunce, and of the lordship and land of Ireland, duc of York, have and take uppon hym the charge and labour to ride into the parties of the seid realme of Englond and Wales, where the seid rebellions, murdres, riottes, spoilyng, extorsions and oppressions be used, committed and attempted, to represse, subdue and appese them, and also to resist his seid enemyes of Fraunce and Scotland within his said realme..." From: The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275–1504 The Roll of the Parliament of the First Year of Henry IV, Oct. 1460 - Edited by Chris Given-Wilson SOBERTY NOUN sobriety; the quality of being sober or moderate in the indulgence of appetite; moderation in the use of strong drink ...1303 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Old French sobreté, soberté, from Latin sōbrius (sober) + -ty FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1303 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Or. þou ledyst. any man to þe ale And madest hym drunk with troteuale, And he solde hys þyng to þe More þan he wulde yn soberte, Hyt semeþ þou art a gylour, And coueytous, and trechour..." From: Robert of Brunne's "Handlyng Synne" - Robert Mannyng TRADITIOUS ADJ. of the nature of tradition; that has been passed down as a tradition; traditional ...1612 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin tradit-, past participial stem of trādere (to hand over, to deliver, to relate, to tell of) + -ious FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1612 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...where the people leaue the right arms of their Infants males vnchristned (as they terme it) to the end that at any time afterwards, they may giue a more deadly, and vngratious blow when they strike: which things do not only shew how palpably they are carried away by traditious obscurities, but doe also intimate how full their hearts bee of inueterate reuenge..." From: The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine Presenting an Exact Geography of the Kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Iles Adioyning: With the Shires, Hundreds, Cities and Shire-Townes, Within Ye Kingdome of England, Divided and Described by Iohn Speed - John Speed BINGY ADJ. of milk: in the first stage of turning sour ...1857 Eng. dial. NOUN (also BINGEE, BINGEY, BINGIE, BINJY) the stomach, the belly ...1859 Aust. sl. ETYMOLOGY adj. - from bing (vb. of milk: to being to turn sour) + -y n. - Aboriginal FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1857- see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE (adj.) "...one of those ordered was rice boiled in water, and eaten with a sauce of treacle and sugar; but it was often uneatable, because the water had been taken out of the rain tub. and was strongly impregnate with the dust lodging on the roof, whence it had trickled down into the old wooden cask, which also added its own flavour to that of the original rain water. The milk, too, was often "bingy," to use a country expression for a kind of taint that is far worse than sourness, and suggests the idea that it is caused by want of cleanliness about the milk pans, rather than by the heat of the weather..." From: The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell EXAMPLE (noun) "..."O my ____" (colonial oath!) said the other: "O my ____ 'cabbage-tree!' So there's going to be a coil about that scrubby little myrnonger; eh? Don't you fret your bingy, boss; he'll be as good a man as his father yet..." From: The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn - Henry Kingsley REGIFICAL ADJ. royal, noble, stately; magnificent, lavish, sumptuous, pompous ...1656 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin rēgificus (fit for a king, royal, sumptuous) + -al FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1656 - Regifical, (regificus) royal, princely, pompous, sumptuous From: Glossographia; Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all Such Hard Words, whether Hebrew, Greek or Latin... as are now used in our refined English tongue CHANTOOSIE also CHANTOOSE, CHANTOOZIE NOUN a female singer of popular songs ...1940 US colloq. ETYMOLOGY from French chanteuse + -y FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1940 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Hildegarde, the international chantoosie from Milwaukee..." From: The Nevada State Journal Sept, 15, 1940 |
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