also YESTHERN (dialect)
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY ? from yester after adjs. in -ern, as eastern EXAMPLE From: Stray Verses 1889 - 1890 Robert Lord Houghton, 1891 Four Lovers. P. 85
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Note: E-BAI lists VERILOQUIOUS speaking the truth
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Latin vēriloquus speaking truly EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from sarcasm + -ous EXAMPLE From: Hudibras Written in the Time of the Late Wars By Samuel Butler, 1709 Canto II. P. 70 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY gads (euphemism for God's) + zooks, origin unknown EXAMPLE From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick Translated into English, 1653 Volume II. Printed ? The Fourth Book of Dr. Francis Rabelais Chapter XXIX. How Pantagruel sail'd by the Sneaking-Island where Shrovetide reign'd P. 181 also CHOYCE, CHOYSE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY ? from French choisir, in same sense; or perhaps rather an assimilation of choose v. (? in form chose) to the n. chois, choice, so that choice, choise would form a pair like advice,advise, use, use, glass, glaze. If it had been only Scottish, the oi might have originated as the 16th c. Scottish spelling of ō. EXAMPLE From: A Book of Scotish Pasquils, 1568-1715 Edited by James Maidment, 1868 Pasquil on the Stair Family also TARADIDDLE
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: The Duel: Or, My Two Nephews A Farce, in Two Acts By R. B. Peake, 1823 P. 29 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Parnassus - in Greek mythology, known as the home of music and poetry EXAMPLE From: The Critical Review Or, Annals of Literature Volume the Thirty-Eighth, Printed 1774 35. Modest Exceptions, from the Court of Parnassus, to Mrs. Macaulay's Modest Plea. By the Author of the Doctor Dissected: A Poem P. 154 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY perhaps from cheery + merry; possibly only a jingling combination EXAMPLE From: The Works of Laurence Sterne Vol III. Printed 1775 A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy The Consequence. P. 219 also SCRIMITY, SCRIMMITY
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES EXAMPLE From: The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 also FAUNTKIN
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY diminutive of faunt: aphetic form of Old French enfaunt, enfant. The shortened form has not been found in French, but Italian has the corresponding fante boy, servant, foot-soldier, whence German fant EXAMPLE From: Morte Arthure: The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur Printed from a Manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, 1847 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY of fanciful formation EXAMPLE From: Temple Bar A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers The Seventieth Volume. January to April 1884 Zero: A Story of Monte Carlo Chapter IV. The Hotel Des Anges. P, 158 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from Latin pedisequus following on foot, a foot-follower, from pedi- (foot) + -sequus following, sequī to follow EXAMPLE From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick By Jean de Renou, 1657 The Apothecaries Shop: Of Liquid Electuaries CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY from spill (vb.) + obj. good EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
ETYMOLOGY of obscure origin: perhaps originally a name of some bird (From Murray's N.E.D.: "the suggestion that it is from meek (adj.) is untenable") EXAMPLE From: The Plays of William Shakspeare Volume the Third, Printed 1778 Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Scene I. P. 452 Note: E-NED also has the following: also GORELL, GORRELL
CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY from Old French gorel, gorreau, a pig, hog, related to Old French gore fem., sow: of unknown origin. EXAMPLE From: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1888-1933 CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: J. Nichols's Select Collection of Poems, Volume III, 1780 Miscellany Poems The Counter-Rat CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES
EXAMPLE From: Satires By Joseph Hall Notes by Samuel Weller Singer Printed 1824, P. 55-56 |
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