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ADJ. 1. larger than ordinary ...B1900 Eng. dial. 2. wakeful, easy to be awaked ...B1900 Eng. dial. 3. excellent, wonderful ...1940s Aust. sl. NOUN 1. anything abnormally large of its kind; a big lie; a heavy blow ...1823 2. a driver of animals; a drover; an ox or mule driver ...1827 Amer. dial. 3. a gadget, a thing ...20C US sl. 4. the penis ...20C US sl. 5. something excellent ...Bk1942 Amer. sl. 6. a fool ...1960s Aust. sl. 7. a masturbator ...1980s US sl. VERB to tremble, to shake, to quake ...B1900 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY from whack (vb.) + -er EXAMPLE From: Tom Brown's School Days By An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes), 1857 Chapter IV, The Bird Fanciers, A Debate
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ETYMOLOGY AND EXAMPLE From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Works of the English Poets. Edited by Dr. Samuel Johnson, Vol. XII, 1810 Thomson's Poems: Summer, 1727 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Clockmaker; Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville By Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1843 Chapter V, The Great Unknown CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
NOUNS 1. a wild, thoughtless person; a noisy, talkative person ...1690 colloq. 2. (as 'jinglebrains') stupidity ...Bk1942 Amer. sl. EXAMPLE From: Anna St. Ives: A Novel By Thomas Holcroft, 1792 Volume I, Letter XVI, Abimelech Henley to Frank Henley, Wenbourne-Hill. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain, Chapter XXXV, Respectable Huck Joins the Gang CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Temple Bar A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers The Eighty-First Volume, September to December, 1887 Loyalty George, By Mrs. Parr, Chapter XVI CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Old French ortografie (13th c.), later ortographie, modern French orthographie (16th c. in Littré), from Latin orthographia, from Greek ὀρθογραϕία, noun of quality from ὀρθογράϕ-ος writing correctly, a correct writer, orthographer, from ὀρθό-ς + -γράϕος that writes, writer + ize EXAMPLE From: The Sporting Magazine Or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of The Turf, The Chase, And every other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit. Vol. 8 New Series, or Vol. 58 Old Series, 1821 Farther Improvements to the Cockney School CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Visions of Taste. A Satire. By David Douglas, 1823 Part I. Sect. II Vision I, The School of Poetry Also COLLI-MOLLIE, COLLY-MOLLY
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY Corruption of 'melancholy'. EXAMPLE From: A Glossary, Or, Collection of Words... By Robert Nares, 1822 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
Pronunciation of ACERSECOMIC ETYMOLOGY from Latin acersecomēs in Juv., from Gr. ἀκερσεκόµης with unshorn hair, + -ic EXAMPLE From: The Bookmart Volume 8, June 1890, Cockeram's Dictionary CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY Middle English and Anglo-French crious = Old French crieus, from crier to cry EXAMPLE From: The Holy Bible Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and His Followers. Edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederic Madden. Volume III, 1850 Proverbs, Cap. IX CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from rotund adj., after quadrant EXAMPLE Note: E-NED only shows 'rotundant' as being a noun. However, there are examples of it being used as an adjective, as shown in the second example. Also note that the first example shows the spelling as 'retundant,' as per E-NED. From: Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs, Or, A Dish of Traitorous Tyrants Edited by James O. Halliwell, 1860 A Colledge Butler From: Miscellanies in Prose and Verse By Benjamin Hardacre, 1874 I Would Not Be a Bird CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY A burlesque formation on flam. EXAMPLE From: The Sporting Magazine of the Transactions of The Turf, The Chase, And every other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit. Volume 42, 1813 Easter Amusements of the Year 1813 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY & EXAMPLE From: Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. By John Jamieson, 1841 |
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