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NOUNS 4. the name given to a species of stickleback (Scottish) VERBS to treat with scorn, to mock, to deride, to insult (obsolete) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY From E-NED: West Germanic: OE. biacusmer, -or (str. neut.), identical with OHG. biacusmer ‘ridicule,’ f. biacu, by (in its strong or accented form) + -smer, which Schmeller connects with MHG. smier a smile, laughing, smieren to smile. Others have compared OHG. smero, OE. smeoru, OTeut. *smerwo-(m, ‘fat, grease, butter,’ which seems, on phonetic as well as other grounds, less probable. EXAMPLE (for definition 3) From: Cursor Mundi (The Cursur O The World) A Northumbrian Poem of the XIVth Century Edited by Rev. Richard Morris, Vol. III, 1877 The Seventh Age of the World. Of Antechrist. P. 1260
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