RIXOSOUS ADJ. given to brawling, pugnacious, quarrelsome - 1623 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin rixōsus (given to brawling, pugnacious), from rixa (quarrel, brawl) + -ōsus (full of or abounding in) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1623 - Rixosous, full of brabbles. From: The English Dictionarie; or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words - Henry Cockeram
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FODGE VERB to proceed, to happen; also, to thrive, to take shape - 1581 obs. ETYMOLOGY a variant of fadge (vb. to fit in with or suit the surroundings; hence to get on, to succeed, to thrive) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1581 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Againe Priam perceiuing well, that thus this geare woulde fodge, Priam to the Troyās & Greekes..." From: Ten Books of Homers Iliades - Translated out of French by Arthur Hall OLENT ADJ. smelling, giving out a smell or scent - 1607 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin olent-, olēns (giving out a smell) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1607 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...If the vrine of a Foxe fall vpon the grasse or other Herbs it drieth and killeth them, and the earth remaineth barren euer afterward. The sauour of a Foxe is more strong then of any other vulgar beast, he stincketh at Nose and taile, for which cause Martiall calleth it Olidam Vulpem, an Olent or smelling beast..." From: The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes - Edward Topsell JESSIE NOUN n. 1. a bluff or threat - 1914 US criminals' sl. n. 2. a cowardly or effeminate man - 1923 colloq. n. 3. a young woman - 1942 US sl. n. 4. chastisement - Bk1942 US sl. n. 5. a red-haired girl or woman - 1947 African-American sl. n. 6. a homosexual man - 1958 sl. n. 7. a Jewish homosexual man - 2003 S. Afr. homosexual sl. ETYMOLOGY from female proper name FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1914 - JESSIE, Noun General currency. A bluff; a threat. Example: “He rang in a jessie and got away with it.” From: A Vocabulary Of Criminal Slang, With Some Examples Of Common Usages - Louis E. Jackson & C.R. Hellyer (1914) EXAMPLE (n. 2.) "...He proceeded to explain his case, flustered, but very anxious to be reasonable ... very anxious. Bella liked him. He was a big Jessie, but ... but she liked him...." From: Mince Collop Close - George Blake SMICK-SMACK ADJ. elegant, first-rate - 1802 rare NOUN a smacking noise; a smacking or frequent kissing - 1550 obs. ETYMOLOGY from smick (? to kiss), and smack (a sharp noise made in kissing) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1802 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...What a hurly burly is here! Smicke smacke, and all this gere! You will to ticke tacke, I fere, If you had time: Well, wanton, well; I wysse, I can tel, That such smocke smell Will set your nose out of tune..." From: Lusty Juventus - Richard Weaver MOBARD also MOBBARD NOUN a villain; a rascal; a fool - a1450 obs.rare, contemptuous usage ETYMOLOGY of unknown origin FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1450 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...John Nay, such mobardis schall neuere man vs make, Erste schulde we dye all at onys..." From: The York Plays The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries (1885) - Lucy Toulmin Smith ARBORATOR NOUN one who attends to the culture of trees - 1664 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin arborātor (pruner of trees), from arborāre (to cultivate trees) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1664 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...To conclude, in the time of this work should our ingenious arborator frequently incorporate, mingle, and unite the arms and branches of some young and flexible trees which grow in consort, and near to one another; by entering them into their mutual barks with a convenient incision..." From: Sylva; or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees - John Evelyn CREATOPHAGOUS also KREATOPHAGOUS NOUN flesh-eating, carnivorous - 1850 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Greek κρέατ-, κρέας (kreas) (flesh) + -phagous (that feeds on) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1850 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The great evil of the ordinary diet of Europeans seems to be, not in its animal nature, - for if it were so, the Guachos of South America, who are exclusively kreatophagous, must be rapidly killing themselves..." From: The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery FLABERGULLION also FLABERGUDGION NOUN a dirty, mean fellow; a worthless, slovenly fellow; a base, foul, nasty wretch; a scoundrel - 1611 obs. ETYMOLOGY ? variant of slubberdegullion, clapperdudgeon? FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1611 - Baligaut: m. An vnweldie lubber, great lobcocke, huge luske, mishapen lowt, ill fauoured flabergullion. From: A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues - Randle Cotgrave DRUNKENSOME ADJ. addicted to drunkenness - a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY from drunken + -some FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1300 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...And þou him haue don priue scath þat him to scau þou wat war wath, Als brath, and drunkensum, and skald, And telles in breth þat him es tald..." From: Cursor Mundi (The Cursur o The World - The Runner of the World) A Northumbrian poem of the 14th century IMBRATE VERB to defile, to sully, to pollute - 1542 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Italian imbrattare (to dirty (with), to smear) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1542 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The thinges of this State semith to be fowle imbratid by corruptid factions..." From: State Papers (1849) King Henry the Eighth Part V, Foreign Correspondence Harvel to Henry VIII (1542) |
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