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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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NESTLE-TRIPE

31/8/2017

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NESTLE-TRIPE

NOUN
the youngest child of a family; a weak, puny child;
the smallest and weakest of a brood or litter ...1616 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from 'nestle-cock' with obscure second element
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1616 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...But I, that am his eldest and first borne,
shall have the nesteltrett sett mee beforne"
 
From: John Lane's Continuation of Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale', 1616
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The English Dialect Dictionary,
Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
• The West Somerset Word-Book,
​Frederick Thomas Elworthy, 1886

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BULLFINCH SKY

31/8/2017

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BULLFINCH SKY

NOUN
a red-hued sunset ...1863 Eng. dial. (Norfolk)
 
ETYMOLOGY
from the colour of the bullfinch
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1863 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...While we look on, it changes, deepening as soon as the
sun has gone down into a glossy lurid crimson. An old shepherd,
quite as high an authority on weather matters within the village
precincts as Admiral Fitzroy himself, first drew my attention to this
'bullfinch sky' - so he called it - as a certain portent of foul weather."
 
From: Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume XVIII, 1863
"Our Winter Pensioners"
 
SOURCES
• The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905

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MARITICIDAL

30/8/2017

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MARITICIDAL

ADJ.
husband-killing ...1819 rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin maritus husband + -cide killing, killer + -al
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1819 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...There the false nine and forty Danaides;
Near each the steel mariticidal bleeds;
No leaky vessels drain the crimson flood,
The measure of their guilt brim full of blood.
 
From: The Vestriad
By: Hans Busk, 1819
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
 
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EYELY

29/8/2017

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EYELY

ADJ.
visible or apparent to the eye; evident, obvious ...1561 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from eye (n.) + -ly
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1561 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...And it is a most clere, an euen a certeine eyely and
euident demonstration by a militude..."
 
From: Henrich Bullinger's Hundred Sermons Vppon
the Apocalipse of Iesu Christe
Translated by: John Daus, 1561
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
 
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LEIGHTON

27/8/2017

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LEIGHTON

NOUN
a garden ...c950 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Old English leahtun,  from earlier leactun,  a garden,
from leac leek + tun enclosure, farm, settlement
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
"...woes monn sende in lehtune"
From: Lindisfarne Gospels, c950
 
EXAMPLE
...And I have met with several British Words that are still in use,
such as Laghton for a Garden, which I take to be
a Bed, or Hillock, of Leeks"
 
From: The Itinerary of John Leland
By: Richard Richardson, a1700
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• Dictionary of Early English,
​Joseph Shipley, 1955

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SITIENT

25/8/2017

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SITIENT

ADJ.
thirsty; thirsting, coveting, desiring much ...1656 rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin sitientem thirsty, pres. pple. of sitire to thirst
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - Sitient (sitiens) thirsting, coveting, desiring much
From: Blount's Glossographia
 
EXAMPLE
"...Oh, Christopher rheumatism doth not seem to have made thee less esurient or sitient, when the hospitality of Glasgow..."
 
From: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1821
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
 
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TWITTLE-TWATTLE

24/8/2017

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TWITTLE-TWATTLE

NOUN
idle talk, chatter, gossip, tittle-tattle ...1556 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
altered from 'tittle-tattle'
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1556 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...suche a kynde of religioun, as hath more twitle twattle
toyes in it, then the Leuitical lawe"
 
From: Rudolf Gwalther's Latin Antichrist
Translated by: John Old, 1556
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
​William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891

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POBIE

22/8/2017

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POBIE

also (for n.1.) POBE
 
NOUN
1. a father or foster-father ...1822 Scot.
2. a peak or high hill ...Bk1905 Scot.
 
ETYMOLOGY
(for n.1) Jamieson suggests it is probably from
Islandic (Icelandic) papi, pappas, papa, pater
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1822 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...asked Swene if he could not prevail upon his wife to go
to her pobe the devil, and bid him loose a knot..."
 
(Note: in the above example, the author gives the definition for 'pobe' as "Foster-father, or nurse's husband")
 
From: A Description of the Shetland Islands
By: Samuel Hibbert, 1822
 
SOURCES
• The English Dialect Dictionary,
Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
• Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language,
John Jamieson, John Johnstone, 1867 
 
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CARPACIOUS

21/8/2017

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CARPACIOUS

ADJ.
given to carping ...1574 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin carpere taken in sense of English 'carp':
after loquacious, rapacious, etc.
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1574 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...one piece were ingendred corrupt and hastye Judges,
of another, carpacious Controllers, and of his hinder
partes impudent Scoffers..."
 
From: A Perfite Platforme of a Hoppe Garden
By: Reginald Scot, 1574
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933

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FRUITESTER

20/8/2017

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FRUITESTER

NOUN
a female seller of fruit ...c1386 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from fruit (n.) + -ster
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1386 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...And right anon comen thanne Tombesteres
Fetys and smale, and yonge frutesteres"

(And right away then come dancing girls
Elegantly shaped and slim, and girls selling fruits)
 
From: The Pardoner's Tale
By: Geoffrey Chaucer, c1386
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
 
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DIVERTISSANT

17/8/2017

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DIVERTISSANT

ADJ.
diverting, entertaining, amusing, pleasing ...1645 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
French divertissant pr. pple. divertir to divert
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1645 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...doubtless one of the most divertissant and
considerable vistas in the world."
 
From: The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn
By: John Evelyn, a1700
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
 
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MOMIST

17/8/2017

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MOMIST

NOUN
a fault-finder ...1597 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Momus, a Greek divinity, the god of ridicule who for his censures
upon the gods was banished from heaven + -ist
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1597 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...abate the furie of many insulting momistes who think nothing
true but what they doo themselues."
 
From: A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music
By: Thomas Morley, 1597
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
​William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891
 
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COGITABUNDOUS

15/8/2017

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COGITABUNDOUS

ADJ.
deep in thought, thoughtful, meditating, musing ...1627
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin cōgitābundus thinking, from cōgitāre to think
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1627 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...But my greife for the miseries and desolacions of true religion
in Germanie, France, and Denmarke, made my soul soe
sadd and cogitabundous, as it especiallie interrupted
my very studies this moneth."
 
From: The Journals of all the Parliaments
during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
By: Sir Simonds d'Ewes, a1650
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• Dictionary of Early English,
​Joseph Shipley, 1955
 
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HIZZLE

14/8/2017

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HIZZLE

VERB
to make a hissing or whizzing noise ...1583 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
echoic (hizz to make a hissing noise + -le)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1583 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...prosperus hizling Of south blast,
puffing on sayles dooth summon vs onward."
 
From: Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Æneis translated
By: Richard Stanyhurst, 1583
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
 
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SNIRTLE

13/8/2017

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SNIRTLE

NOUN
a suppressed laugh; a sneer ...1834 Scot. & N. Eng. dial.
 
VERB
to laugh in a quiet, suppressed, or restrained manner;
to snigger; to sneer ...1785 Scot. & N. Eng. dial.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from snirt vb. to laugh in a suppressed manner (Scot. & N. Eng. dial.)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1785 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...But through his little heart did grieve,
When round the tinkler prest her,
He feigned to snirtle in his sleeve,
When thus the caird address'd her.
 
From: The Jolly Beggars
By: Robert Burns, 1785
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891
• The English Dialect Dictionary,
Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
• An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language,
John Jamieson, 1879-1887
• A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch,
​Charles Mackay, 1888
 
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KENSY

10/8/2017

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KENSY

also KENSIE
 
NOUN
a rough or rude fellow; an unmannerly person; a rustic
...c1500 Scot. obs. rare
 
NOTE:
from NED:
The erroneous form kenyie is due to a misinterpretation of Ramsay's spelling kenzie in his edition of "Christ's Kirk"
 
ETYMOLOGY
unknown
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
c1500 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Fowll jow joudane hedit-jevellis,
Cowkin kenseis and culroun kewellis."
 
From: The Poems of William Dunbar, 1500-20
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The English Dialect Dictionary,
​Joseph Wright, 1898-1905

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MONOPHAGUE

9/8/2017

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MONOPHAGUE

NOUN
one who eats alone, or who eats only one kind of food ...1625 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek µονοϕάγος (monofagos) that eats alone
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1625 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...A Monophagian or Monophague, one that eats his meat alone without companie, or eats only of one kinde of meat."
 
From: Ductor in Linguas, The Guide into Tongues, 
By: John Minsheu 1625
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933

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IMPINGUATE

8/8/2017

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IMPINGUATE

VERB
to make fat; to fatten ...1620 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
from ppl. stem of late Latin impinguare to fatten
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1620 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...it impinguateth and causeth the body to waxe grosse..."
 
From: Via Recta ad Vitam Longam,
or A plaine Philosophicall demonstration of the Nature,
faculties, and effects of all such things as by way of nourishments...
By: Tobias Venner, 1620
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891
• A Complete Dictionary of the English Language,
Thomas Sheridan, 1790
• Dictionary of Early English,
​Joseph Shipley, 1955

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DISGRUBBLE

8/8/2017

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DISGRUBBLE

VERB
to disgruntle, to put into a sulky dissatisfaction or ill humour, to make discontented ...1689 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from dis- + 'grubble' perhaps for 'grumble'
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1689 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...It is reported Sr Rt Atkins is soe disgrubbl'd not to be
Ch. J. of ye Com. Pleases yt he sath he will not have his
brothers scimm milke."
 
From: Correspondence of the Family of Hatton
Being chiefly letters addressed to Christopher
first Viscount Hatton 1601-1704.
Letter: April 16, 1689
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
 
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UMBERTY

7/8/2017

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UMBERTY

also OMBERTY
 
NOUN
abundance ...1575 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from an alteration of 'uberty' abundance, after 'umber' number
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1575 - see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Then in Philosophy both morall and naturall, I think he be
az naturally overseen: beside poetrie and Astronomie,
and oother hid sciencez, as I may guesse by
the omberty of hiz books;..."
 
From: A Letter: Whearin part of the entertainment untoo the
Queenz Majesty at Killingwoorth Castl,
in Warwik Sheer in this Soomerz Progress.
By: Robert Laneham, 1575
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
​James Murray, 1887-1933
 
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