GWENDERSNOUN
a disagreeable tingling sensation in the extremities, caused by cold; numbness of the fingers or toes ...1816 Eng. dial. (Cornwall) [in some parts of Cornwall it is pronounced 'wonders'] ETYMOLOGY ? from Welsh gwynrew numbness from the cold; gwyndraw numbness, stupor FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1816 - The History of Cornwall, Civil, Military, Religious, etc." By: Richard Polwhele, 1816 EXAMPLE "I have the gwenders in my fingers." From: Glossary of Words in use in Cornwall By: Miss M.A. Courtney, Thomas Q. Couch, 1880 SOURCES • A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, James Halliwell, 1855 • The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905 • Glossary of Words in use in Cornwall, Miss M.A. Courtney, Thomas Q. Couch, 1880
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