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FEATHER-LEGS NOUN Brussels sprouts ...1854 Eng. dial. ETYMOLOGY see below FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1854 - FEATHER-LEGS. Brussels-sprouts. The name is evidently suggested by the mode of growth, as they sprout out quickly all over the stem. From: A Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases - Anne Elizabeth Baker
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PROTONYM NOUN the first person or thing of a certain name; something from which another person or thing takes its name ...1880 rare ETYMOLOGY from proto- (first, first-formed) + Greek ὄνοµα, ὄνυµα (name), after synonym FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1880 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...And here they saw the wrecked canal-boat, the Evening Star, ignominiously quenched in the twilight, with its heavenly protonym palpitating in the vapor above it..." From: Scribner's Monthly An Illustrated Magazine for the People. Conducted by J.G. Holland Vol XIX, March, 1880, No. 5 The Tile Club Afloat MAGIROLOGIST NOUN an expert in cookery ...1814 rare ETYMOLOGY from Greek µάγειρος (mageiros) cook FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1814 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Peace to your shades, ye noble magirologists! Farewel, ye warm and philanthropic patrons of the hungry!..." From: The School for Good Living; Or, a Literary and Historical Essay on the European Kitchen PENSIFUL also PENCEFUL(L), PENCIFUL, PENCYFULL, PENSEFUL, PENSYFUL ADJ. 1. thoughtful, meditative; anxious; melancholy, sorrowful ...c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 2. proud, conceited, giving oneself airs ...1825 Sc. ETYMOLOGY from pense (n.) thought (obs.) or pensée (n.) a thought + -ful FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1450 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Than the kyng was in a grete thought and pensyfull, bothe of the yonge mannes name and of the semblaunce of hys vysage un to hys wide, hys owne moder..." From: Originals and Analogues of some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Trivet's Story of Constance - Edited by Frederick James Furnivall, Edmund Brock, and William Alexander Clouston HOCKERTY-COCKERTY ADV. seated with one's legs astride another's shoulders ...1754 Sc. ETYMOLOGY of unknown origin FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1754 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...my side happen'd to be newmost, an' the great hudderen carlen was riding hockerty cockerty upo' my shoulders in a hand-clap: for the wile limmer was fae dozn'd an' funied wi' cauld... From: Ajax; His Speech to the Grecian Knabbs from Ovid's Metam. Lib. XIII - Robert Forbes A Journal from London to Portsmouth HOLLOW-HEADED ADJ. foolish, silly; mindless ...1823 ETYMOLOGY from hollow (empty, vacant) + -headed FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1823 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Young R. Was ever man plagu'd with such a hollow-headed ninny-hammer. Frank. [Aside] Maybe, that be better han a hollow-hearted one!..." From: The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket ... - Mrs. Inchbald MUTUATE VERB to borrow something that cannot itself be returned ...1548 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin mūtuāt-, ppl. stem of mūtuārī (to borrow); from mūtuus + -ate FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1548 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...trustyng in this iourney to haue wonne their spurres, whiche for to set them selfes and their band the more gorgeously forward had mutuate, and borowed dyuerse and sondry summes of money, and for the repayment of the same, had morgaged and impignorate their landes & possessions..." From: The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke, beeying Long in Continual Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme with all the Actes Done in Bothe the Tymes of the Princes, bothe of the One Linage and of the Other, Beginnyng at the Tyme of Kyng Henry the Fowerth... - Edward Hall 
as per E-NED, 1684 - from: The Atheist, Thomas Otway (see below, from: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway Volume the Second, 1712 The Atheist) (An earlier example is in Bailey's 1675 dictionary - see Example below.) 
From: An Universal Etymological English Dictionary Nathan Bailey, 1675 
of obscure origin; cf. dialect shallock, shollock (vb.), to idle about, to slouch 
a 1603 - A Confutation of the Rhemists Translation, Glosses, and Annotations on the New Testament, (1618) Thomas Cartwright (see below from E-NED) 
from Italian inanellare ‘to frounse, or crisp, or curle haires’ (Florio, 1598), refashioned after Latin ānulus ring 
1592 - Hypnerotomachia, R.D. (see Example below) 
From: The Strife of Love in a Dream Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of The Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna A New Edition by Andrew Lang, 1890 The Fifth Chapter 
DEFINITIONS CONTINUED VERBS to mutter, to grumble, to murmur, fret, complain; to scold, not noisily, but constantly; to chide (dialect, Scottish, Irish) also CHANDER (N. Ireland), CHAUNDER (Scottish), CHANNERS (for noun 2) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES 
from Middle English channeren, probably of imitative origin 
c 1375 - Legends of the Saints: In the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century, ?John Barbour (for verb ) (see Example below) 
From: Legends of the Saints: In the Scottish Dialect of the Fourteenth Century Edited by W.M. Metcalfe Part III. 1891 XLII. Agatha P. 361 
? possible alteration of cullion Note: definition 2: from A Glossary of North Country Words,John Trotter Brockett: "The fable of the thirsty ghost of Gullion drinking the river Acheron dry, is told with considerable humour in one of Bishop Hall's Satires." 
E-NED only lists definition 1, and shows 1825-80 in Jamieson. An earlier example below is from: The History of Manchester: Book the Second containing The Saxon Period By John Whitaker, 1775 A Specimen of an English-British Dictionary 
(for definition 5) From: A Description of the Shetland Islands By Samuel Hibbert, 1822 Notes to Iter IV. Note XIII. Page 562. Witchcraft of Shetland. Trial of Witches in Shetland, A.D. 1644 P. 594 
from stem of Latin indāgāre to trace out, search into, investigate + -acious 
1653 - Physiognomie and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body Fully and Accurately Handled, Richard Sanders (see Example below) (Note: name is shown as 'Saunders' in 1671 edition below.) 
From: Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie: The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, Richard Saunders, 1671 
1894 - The Yellow Book (see Example below) 
From: The Yellow Book An Illustrated Quarterly Volume I April 1894 A Defence of Cosmetics. By Max Beerbohm P. 65 
from Greek βαττολόγος a stammerer, one who repeats himself needlessly + -ize. The Greek word is from the personal name βάττος + -λογος speaking, speaker. 
1634 - A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile Begunne Anno 1636, into Afrique and the greater Asia. Sir Thomas Herbert (1677) (see Example below) 
From: Some Years Travels Into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, Thomas Herbert, 1677 
From: Songs and Other Poems By Alexander Brome The Third Edition Enlarged, 1668 Poems. An Essay of the Contempt of Greatness: being a dialogue of Lucian made English. P. 275 
from im- + meritorious 
1642 - John Vicars, God in the Mount - see below from E-NED 
From: An Address to the Great Man: With Advice to the Public William Pitt, 1758 P. 10 
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