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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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WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE PAST

WORD OF THE DAY: POSTVENTIONAL

31/12/2020

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POSTVENTIONAL
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ADJ.
coming after ...1645 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from post (prefix) + -ventional (in preventional adj.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1645 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...In the full-Moon postventionall to the Comet, 1618, the Sun was in the tenth degree of Sagittarius. In the second Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, 1623, the almost degree of this present Lunation did mediate heaven. King Charles went into Spain that yeer..."
From: The Starry Messenter; or An Interpretation of that Strange Apparition of Three Suns Seens in London, 19. Novemb. 1644.
​being the Birth Day of King Charles
- William Lilly
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WORD OF THE DAY: FLIM-FLAM-FLIRT

30/12/2020

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FLIM-FLAM-FLIRT

​NOUN
a nonsensical speech, a gibe, deceptive nonsense ...1573

ETYMOLOGY
? from flim-flam (n. a piece of nonsense of idle talk), or flim-flam (adj. frivolous, idle, vain, nonsensical), or flam-flirt (int. nonsense) 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1573 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Then oughst haue ben affraid for thine, now causles dost but square
In vain, and flimflam flirts out throwst at them that nothing care.
Such talkings Iuno gaue, and heauenly wights with murmor round
All sondry cried assents, as first whan blasts begin to sound,
With puffs they wag the woods, and tombling blind with soft vprore
They nere pronostike winds, and tels the seaman stormes before..."
From: The Whole .xii. Bookes of the Aeneidos of Virgill. Whereof the first .ix. and part of the Tenth, were Conuerted into English Meeter by Thomas Phaer Esquire, and the Residue Supplied, and the Whole Worke Together Newly Set Forth by Thomas Twyne, Gentleman
- Thomas Twyne
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WORD OF THE DAY: TURPITUDINOUS

29/12/2020

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TURPITUDINOUS
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ADJ.
characterized by turpitude or depravity;
shameful, foul, wicked ...1814 

ETYMOLOGY
from turpitūdin-, stem of turpitūdo (baseness, shamefulness, disgrace) from turpis (base) + -ous

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1814 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...This guilt is so unnatural and so far exceeds all that ever was found turpitudinous in men of their superior endowments and high station, that it surpasses all bounds of credibility, and carries with it its own refutation..."
From: An Oration, Pronounced at Waterville, July 4, 1814; in Commemoration of the Independence of the United States of America
- Joshua Cushman
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WORD OF THE DAY: BLOOTERED

28/12/2020

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BLOOTERED
also BLUITERT
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ADJ.
very drunk; intoxicated ...1820 colloq., orig. Eng. dial., now chiefly Sc. & Irish

ETYMOLOGY
from either blooter (vb. to act or work in a bungling manner, to blunder; to talk foolishly) + -ed,
or from blooter (n. a fool, an oaf, a blunderer) + -ed

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1820 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Ther was geapin an starin, 'mang aw maks--
``Aa! gies ty fist, Ellik! how's tou?''
``Wey, aw bais'd, an bluitert, an queerish;
We'll tek a drop gud mountain dew..."
From: The Poetical Works of Robert Anderson
- Robert Anderson
"Carel Fair"
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WORD OF THE DAY: NIGGARDOUS

27/12/2020

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NIGGARDOUS

​ADJ.
niggardly, parsimonious, stingy ...a1492 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from niggard (n.) + -ous

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1492 - see EXAMPLE below
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EXAMPLE
"...He sente his lettres to some Relygyouses in to lodgys in whiche he wolde lodge  And amonge the brethern there was one. whiche was merueyllously scarse and nygardouse  And wolde noo thynge gyue...."
From: Vitas patrum
Translated by William Caxton
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WORD OF THE DAY: RIDIBUND

26/12/2020

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RIDIBUND

​ADJ.
inclined to laughter; happy, lively ...1909

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin rīdibundus (in a state of laughter),
from rīdēre (to laugh) + -bundus (suffix)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1909 - see EXAMPLE below 
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EXAMPLE
"...If Ischia could procure a well-regulated outlet after the manner of Stromboli, this danger might be averted and a more ridibund race of men gradually evolved. Or if Vesuvius ceased its activity, a new crater might open at Ischia, for these two, so far as has been observed, are reciprocally intermittent...."
From: The English Review
February, 1909
The Island of Typhoeus
- Norman Douglas
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WORD OF THE DAY: MELIORIZE

25/12/2020

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MELIORIZE

VERB
to make better; to improve; to grow better ...1598 rare

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin melior (better) + -ize

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1598 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...I onlye desire this one thinge of them, that they woulde vouchsafe to meliorize the same, as I certaynlye knowe they well can, and doe not retayne their owne commodity therof..."
From: The Frenche Chirurgerye; or, All the Manualle Operations of Chirurgerye, with divers, & sundrye Figures, and amongst the rest, certayne nuefownde Instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operations of Chirurgerye
- Jacques Guillemeau
Translated by A.M.
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WORD OF THE DAY: JUBILIZE

24/12/2020

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JUBILIZE

VERB
1. to jubilate, to rejoice, to exult ...1650
2. to celebrate a jubilee ...1814

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin jūbilum (shout, and later, joyful shout), or English jubile (referring to Latin jūbilum or medieval Latin jūbilus (exultant shout) + -ize

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1650 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Let us Jubilize for so high and signall a blessing, let us triumph for so glorious a victory, let us give heaven due thanks for so dear a trophy; thundring upon this blessed occasion..."
From: An Exact Historie of the Late Revolutions in Naples, and of their Monstrous Successes, not to be parallel'd by any Antient or Modern History
- Alexander Giraffi
Translated by James Howell
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WORD OF THE DAY: URBICARIAN

23/12/2020

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​URBICARIAN
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ADJ.
belonging to a city, esp. of Rome ...1654 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin urbicarius (of the city) + -an

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1654 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Rome the Metropolis of the Roman Province, or Urbicarian region..."
From: An Answer to the Animadversions on the Dissertations Touching Ignatius's Epistles, and the Episcopacie in them Asserted
- Henry Hammond
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WORD OF THE DAY: DORBELISH

22/12/2020

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DORBELISH
also DORBELLISH 

ADJ.
stupid, awkward, clumsy ...1847 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
from dorbel (a scholastic pedant, a dolt) from the English form of Dorbellus (i.e. Nicholas de Orbellis (died 1475), a professor of Scholastic Philosophy at Poitiers, and a vehement supporter of Duns Scotus) + -ish

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1847 - DORBELISH. Very clumsy. Linc.
From: A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century
- James Orchard Halliwell

EXAMPLE
"...They got farish-on and then turned up dorbelish..."
From: Provincial Words and Expressions Current in Lincolnshire
- J. Ellett Brogden, 1866
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WORD OF THE DAY: GLAVER

21/12/2020

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GLAVER

​NOUN
1. chatter; idle, foolish, or gossiping talk or story; also, one addicted to such gossip ...a1400-50 obs. rare exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
2. flattery ...Bk1854 Eng. dial.

​VERB
1. to flatter, to deceive with flattery; to wheedle; to talk plausibly and deceitfully;
to cajole, to coax ...1380 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. † to leer, to ogle ...Bk1874
3. to frown, to scowl, to look with angry disfavour on ...Bk1881 Eng. dial.
4. to chatter, to babble, to talk foolishly or heedlessly; to gossip ...Bk1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.


ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin;
in John Ray's North-Country words is the adjective 'glave or glafe' (smooth), of which glaver may be a derivative

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1380 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...as sumtyme was non. hou-euer antecrist glauer, he letteþ not god to do his wille; for he may disseyue foolis..."
From: The English Works of Wyclif
- John Wycliffe
Edited by F.D. Matthew
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WORD OF THE DAY: EGURGITATE

20/12/2020

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EGURGITATE

​VERB
1. to vomit forth ...1656 rare
2. to utter phrases ...1709 rare, humorous usage

ETYMOLOGY
from  Latin ēgurgitāt- participial stem of ēgurgitāre, from ē (out) + gurgit-em (whirlpool, gulf)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - Egurgitate (egurgito) to draw out, to empty, to disgorge
From: Glossographia; Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all Such Hard Words, Whether Hebrew, Greek,Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British or Saxon, as are now used in our refined English Tongue
- Thomas Blount

EXAMPLE
"...render'd Thee luxuriously Verbose, from whose Scaturiginous Inventive Faculty, such a Multiplicity of Horisonant Phrases arise, which, with so much Facility you Egurgitate, clothing..."
From: The British Apollo
1st Edition, 1708 - 1711
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WORD OF THE DAY: CONCENTRICATE

19/12/2020

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CONCENTRICATE

​VERB
to concentrate ...1647 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from concentric (adj.) + -ate;
possibly an alteration of concentrate (vb.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1647 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Here you have a time prefixed, and must of necessity concentricate your self and your best resolution; elsewhere Nature is unwilling to find a Suspension, abhorring its own Destruction..."
From: An Impartial Account of the Arraignment Trial & Condemnation of Thomas late Earl of Strafford, and Lord Lievtanant of Ireland before the Parliament at Wesminster, Anno Dom, 1641
In A Letter to a Friend
- Thomas Wen
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WORD OF THE DAY: SHRIVELDY

18/12/2020

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SHRIVELDY

​ADJ.
withered; shrivelled up, shrunk up ...1840

ETYMOLOGY
from shrivelled (adj.) + -y

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1840 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Nothing very particular, Sir Matthew, unless it is because of the unaccountable fuss he makes about his elder brother, who is but a poor rickety, shriveldy sort of a child. For some reason or other, his bones never seemed to come rightly straight..."
From: The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy
- Frances Trollope
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WORD OF THE DAY: AMPLITUDINOUS

17/12/2020

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AMPLITUDINOUS
 
ADJ.
ample, capacious ...1904

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin amplitūdin-em from Latin amplitūdo (genitive amplitudinis) from amplus (great, large, ample) + -tudo

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1904 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...What monsters there be; Huge, amplitudinous, endless, and ravenous, Serpents that people the sea...."
From: The Daily Chronicle (London)
Sept 4/7 1904
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WORD OF THE DAY: PINGUEFY

16/12/2020

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PINGUEFY
 
VERB
1. to become fat ...1598 obs. rare
2. to make greasy, to saturate with oil ...1599 rare
3. of soil: to make rich or fertile ...1610 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pinguefacere (to fatten), from pinguis (fat) + -facere (suffix represents -fy) 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1598 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...because of the humiditye vvhich is disperced throughe the vvhole massa of the bloode, soe that by this meanes, the vvoundes are better mundified, and incarnated and those partes doe increace, and pingvifye..."
From: The Frenche Chirurgerye; or, All the Manualle Operations of Chirurgerye, vvith Divers, & Sundrye Figures, and Amongst the Rest, Certayne Nuefovvnde Instrumentes, Verye Necessarye to all the Operationes of Chirurgerye
- Jacques Guillemeau
Translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A.M.
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WORD OF THE DAY: RATTLE-HEADED

15/12/2020

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RATTLE-HEADED
 
ADJ.
empty-headed, stupid; foolish and noisy;
talkative, chattering, giddy, flighty, hare-brained ...1647

ETYMOLOGY
from rattle (n. a rapid succession of short, sharp, percussive sounds) + -headed

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1647 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...The Rattle-headed Ladyes being Assembled at Kates in the Covent-Garden, and having spent some time in choosing of their Speaker, it having been objected against the Lady Duches that shee had used beating up of quatters..."
From: The Parliament of Ladies. Or Divers Remarkable Passages of Ladies in Spring-Garden; in Parliament Assembled
- Henry Neville
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WORD OF THE DAY: LATESOME

14/12/2020

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LATESOME
 
ADJ.
late; backward; slow, sluggish; tiresome, tedious
..a1382 rare, chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial. usage

ADV.
late ...1843 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
 from Middle English latesom, latsom, latsum,
from Old English lætsum (slow; late);
equivalent to late (adj. slow, sluggish; reluctant, tedious) + -some

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1382 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Moyses seith, Lord, Y biseche, I am not wel spekynge fro ȝisterday and fro the thridde dai hens; and sith thow spak to thi seruaunt, Y am of more latsum and of more slow tonge..."
From: The Earlier Version of the Wycliffite Bible
Edited by Conrad Lindberg
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WORD OF THE DAY: TICKLE-BRAIN

13/12/2020

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TICKLE-BRAIN
 
NOUN
1. one who supplies potent liquor;
one who has an unsteady brain, as one intoxicated ...1598 obs.
2. potent liquor, a strong drink ...1639 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from tickle + -brain

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1598 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...Falstaff: Peace good pint-pot, peace good tickle-braine.
Harrie, I doe not onelie maruaile where thou spendest thy
time, but also how thou art accompanied...."
From: The History of Henrie the Fourth
- William Shakespeare
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WORD OF THE DAY: WHERRY-GO-NIMBLE

13/12/2020

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WHERRY-GO-NIMBLE
also used in plural, WHERRY-GO-NIMBLES

NOUN
looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea ...1699 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 

ETYMOLOGY
from wherry, a variant of whirry (n. a rapid or sudden movement) (vb. to move or go rapidly, to hurry) 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1699 - The wherry-go-nimble, diarrhea, perfluvium
From: A Dictionary English-Latin and Latin-English
- Elisha Coles

EXAMPLE
"...But lo ! the wherry-go-nimbles, which had so unreasonably attacked the Royal stomach, (for even Kings are subject to these unkingly complaints), gave his Majesty full employment at the Phoenix Park, and the Duke of Leinster arrived at the Curragh with this direful intelligence..."
From: Creevey's Life and Times: A Further Selection from the Correspondence of Thomas Creevey; Born 1768 - Died 1838
From excerpt dated 1821
Edited by John Gore, 1934
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