ETYMOLOGY
from French emburelucocquer, nonce-word of fanciful formation
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1548 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…Ha, for favour sake, (I beseech you) never emberlucock or inpulregafize your spirits with these vaine thoughts and idle conceits; for I tell you, it is not impossible with God, and if he pleased all women henceforth should bring forth their children at the eare….”
From: The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Sonne Pantagruel
– Mr. Francis Rabelais
Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux
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