BOBOLYNE


NOUN
a fool, a gaby
- c1540 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
? from bob (vb. to make a fool of, to deceive [obs.]);
also Spanish 'bobo' (a fool)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1540 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...It wonder is to me,
Howe ye maye fathers be
Your sede to multiply,
But yf yow be incubi,
That gender gobolynes:
Be we not bobolynes,
Sutch lesinges to beleve,
Whiche ye amonge vs dry [ve]?..."

From: The Image of Ipocrysy
- in The Poetical Works of John Skelton (1843)

HIGH STRIKES
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NOUN
hysterics; a display of over whelming, uncontrollable emotion or agitation, esp. as a result of acute distress;
chiefly used with 'the'
- 1809 rare, colloq. & humorous usage 

ETYMOLOGY
punning alteration of hysterics,
after 'high' and the plural of 'strike' (a distance, obs.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1809 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...The orator once more gets into the high strikes, and again suffers his philosophical spirit to regale itself with what we conceive to be (though perhaps erroneously) another tit bit of domestic scandal..."

From: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine;
Or, Monthly, Political, and Literary Censor
September to December Inclusive. 1809
- Abolition of Tithe, Richard Flower

WOMANTHROPE


NOUN
a person who hates women; a misogynist
- 1863 rare, humorous usage 

ETYMOLOGY
a humorous blend of woman and misanthrope (a hater of mankind)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1863 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...I had nothing to beguile the time except the conversation of a stoker in a state of what I once saw described in a novel by a female hand as "doubtful ebriety" -  a mistake in etymological analogy, for which I had been prepared a few pages before, by finding a misogynist called a " womanthrope."..."

From: 
The Competition Wallah
- George Otto Trevelyan

PLORE


VERB
to shed tears, to wail; also, to lament
- 1373 obs. rare 

ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman and Middle French plorer, plourer ;
also in Anglo-Norman as plurer, plorrer, ploure, variants of Old French, Middle French, French pleurer to shed tears, to suffer, to lament, to mourn,
or their etymon Latin plōrāre to wail, lament

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1373 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Flatrie flourith, treuthe plourith..."

From: The Sermons of Thomas Brinton, Bishop of Rochester
- Edited by Sister M.A. Devlin, 
(vol. 1, Royal Historical Society Publications ser. 3, vol. 85 (1954))

​​STRADAROLLE
 
NOUN
a highwayman
- 1562 obs. rare 
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ETYMOLOGY
from Italian stradaruolo (freebooter), from strada (street)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1562 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Then this subtill olde Ruter sent to Scanderbeg a messager, requiring him to fyght with him like a prince in appointed battayle, and not vpon suddennes in suche sorte lyke a stradarolle and thefe, seking alwaye to take the enemye vnprouided...."

From: Two Very Notable Commentaries te one of the Originall of the Turcks and Empire of the house of Ottomanno
- Translated out of Italian into English by John Shute

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​​NOBBER
 
ADJ.
nine 
- 1996 Brit. sl. 

NOUN
n. 1. a blow to the head
- 1811 boxing sl., rare 

n. 2. a boxer skilled in delivering blows to the head 
- 1821 boxing sl., obs. 

n. 3. a person who seeks contributions of money, esp. after a performance; one who collects money for a street entertainer
- 1890 Brit. sl., rare 

n. 4. nine 
- M19 sl.

n. 5. one who is having sexual intercourse
- 20C Irish sl. 
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ETYMOLOGY
n. 1. - from nob (the head) + -er 
n. 2. - from nob (to beat, to strike) + -er
n. 3. - from nob (to seek contributions of money) + -er
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FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1811  (n. 1.) - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...A Nobber A Doubler...."

From: Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
Division I. Political and Personal Satires

​​CHRISTIANOCATEGORIAN
 
NOUN
an accuser of Christians
- 1620 obs. rare 
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ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Christianocategorus (accuser of Christians)
from Byzantine Greek Χριστιανοκατήγορος,
from Χριστιανο- Christiano- comb. form 
+ ancient Greek κατήγορος (katḗgoros) (accuser) 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1620 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...In a word, we find in your images the Hellenisme, the doctrine of Simon Magus, of the Carpocratians, of the Basilidians, the Christianocategorians, and others your fore-fathers..."

From: The Three Conformities;
Or The Harmony and Agreement of the Romish Church with Gentilisme, Iudaisme and Auncient Heresies
- Written in French by Francis de Croy, translated by William Hart

EXOUSIASTIC
 
ADJ.
pert. to authority; authoritative
- 1688 obs. rare 
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ETYMOLOGY
from  Greek ἐξουσιαστικός (exousiastikos) (authoritative), from ἐξουσιάζειν (to exercise authority,) from ἐξουσία (authority)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1688 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Finally, the Exousiastick power of trying, sending, & Authorizing office-bearers in the Church, is made useless & void by this Toleration...."

From: The Testimony of Some persecuted Presbyterian Ministers of the Gospel, unto the Covenanted Reformation of the Church of Scotland
- James Renwick

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​​TRACTATRIX
 
NOUN
a female shampooer
- 1874 rare 
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ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tractātrix feminine of tractātor shampooer, also,  one who treats of a subject 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1874 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Their ladies are very hard in what they say about gentlemen, but their actions seem to belie them. That stout Miss Susanetta, with her shrill voice, and her hand of the tractatrix, is a strange creature...."

From: ​Frances
- M. [and F.) Collins

​​GLACIOUS
 
ADJ.
resembling ice
- 1646 obs. rare

​ETYMOLOGY
from  French glacieux (obs.), from Latin glaciēs (ice)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1646 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...which although to some degree exhaled and placed in cold conservatories, will Crystallise and shoot into white and glacious bodyes; yet is not this a congelation primarily effected by cold...."

From: Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents and Commonly Presumed Truths...
- Sir Thomas Browne
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​​DADDLE
 
NOUN
n. 1. a hand or fist
- 1725 Eng. dial. & sl., arch. 

n. 2. gait
- 20C Irish sl. 

VERB
vb. 1. to be slow in motion or action; to dawdle; to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to saunter
- 1673 colloq., later Sc. & Eng. dial. 

vb. 2. to walk totteringly or unsteadily, like a child; to stagger; to walk with short steps, as a small child or an infirm person
1710 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 

vb. 3. of a prostitute: to walk the streets
- 1825 Sc. obs. 

vb. 4. to cheat, to trick, to swindle
- 1883 rare 

vb. 5. to enjoy lesbian sex; the implication is of mutual masturbation
- 19C sl. 

vb. 6. to trouble, bother, annoy, worry
- Bk1900 Eng. dial. 
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ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
(vb. 4. - possibly a variation of 'diddle' (to cheat or swindle))
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1673 (see vb. 1) - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...When I and my Bride [went to] bed, on my wedding-day at night,
My fancies with pleasure she fed, for I had my full delight.
​She [could teach in] Venus's school, and with me she did daddle;
But I, a young puny fool, [knew nothing of curb or] saddle....."
From: Mirth for Citizens; Or, A Comedy for the Country
- A. Miles
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​PECCADILLIE
 
NOUN
a minor fault or sin; a trivial offense, a petty crime ...1660 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from peccadillo (n.) with the ending assimilated to -y

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1660 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...There is great commerce of all wares and merchandise, of slaves especially, both males and females; 'tis but a peccadillie, for a Master to lye with his slave, but if she proves with child, the law enfranchises her, and she may go whither she pleases...."
From: The World Surveyed, or The Famous Voyages & Travailes of Vincent le Blanc, or White, of Marseilles
- Vincent Le Blanc
Translated by Francis Brooke

​​FUCATE
 
ADJ.
artificially coloured, beautified with paint; hence, falsified, disguised, counterfeit ...1531 obs.

VERB
to colour, to paint, to counterfeit ...1535 obs.
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ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fūcātus, past participle of fūcāre (to paint, rouge), from fūcus (n. paint or cosmetic for beautifying the skin)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1531 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Finally all disceyte and dissimulation, in the opinion of them whiche exactely honoure iustyce, is nerre to dispraise than commendation, all though that therof mought ensue some thinge that were good. For in vertue may be nothing fucate or counterfayte...."
From: The Boke Named The Governour
- Thomas Elyot
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