FOMBLITUDENOUN
a weak comparison ...1583 nonce word obs. ETYMOLOGY ? from 'fumble', parodying 'similitude' FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1583 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...As for you fomblitudes of Manlius and Iudas, two proper names, compared with image, an idoll, King, and Tyrant, which be common names, I will not vouchsafe to answer them." From: A Defense of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holie Scriptures into the English Tong... By: William Fulke, 1583 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, James Halliwell, 1855
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