NIDDIPOL NOUN a 'noddypoll', a fool, a simpleton - 1582 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY of unknown origin; possibly an alteration of noddypoll (n.) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1582 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Then to her (for wisely shee found thee treacherye feined Too fetch too Tyrians the great empyre of Italye woorcking) Thus Ʋenus her speeches dyd bend. What niddipol hare brayne Would scorne this couenaunt? would with thee gladlye be iarring?..." From: Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis Translated intoo English Heroical Verse by Richard Stanyhurst
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FRUSTRANEOUS ADJ. leading to frustration, vain, useless, ineffectual, unprofitable - a1643 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin type frustraneus (from frustra [in vain]) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE a1643 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...The first time he builds seven Altars, and sacrificeth on them, and the second time seven, and the third time seven with more opportunity: and though he saw that every time it was like a piece charged against another, that recoyled upon himselfe, though hee saw how frustranious, and empty all his intendments, and purposes were, yet for all that he goes on in the hardnes of his heart..." From: Judgement and Mercy, Or, The Plague of Frogges Inflicted, Removed. Delivered in Nine Sermons - Josias Shute WIFELKIN NOUN an affection form of address for a wife - 1851 colloq. rare ETYMOLOGY apparently irregularly from wife (n.) + -el + -kin FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1851 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "..."I'll strangle thee," said the beldame, dashing at me. "Bad money, is it?" "Leave him to me, wifelkin," said the man, interposing; "you shall now see how I'll baste him down the lane..." From: Lavengro; The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest - George Henry Borrow |
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