ETYMOLOGY
from Latin meditabundus,
from meditari (to meditate) + -bundus (suffix forming verbal adjectives)
EXAMPLE
“…While this he spoke, his Horse he lights off,
And with his Handkerchief he dights off
Tears from his eyes, then on the ground
He grovelling lyes meditabound,
His Horses grievous succussation
Had so excoriat his Foundation,
That till the Hide his Hips did come on,
The earth he could not set his Burn on…”
From: Mock Poem,
Or, Whiggs Supplication
– Samuel Colvil, 1681
ETYMOLOGY
from fandangs (fanciful adornments in personal attire, trinkets (Eng. dial.))
EXAMPLE
“…who though a little proud and finical, to be sure he will yaw a parcel of nonsense about jukes and lords, and them sort of fandangus trumpery, and puts a parcel of gibberish whims into the head of all the women he falls in with…”
From: The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors
– Agnes Maria Bennett, 1797
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pacabilis (placable),
from pacare (to appease, pacify) + -bilis (-ble)
EXAMPLE
“…Divil a worse, sir, yet not more now than ever. – Time immemorial, – wasn’t it always so? a house burned here, and a pacable tinant carded there; one villain murthering another, for teeking land over his head…”
From: Dramatic Scenes from Real Life
Manor Sackville
by Lady Sydney Morgan, 1833
ETYMOLOGY
from Manx quaaltagh, qualtagh (the first person one meets after leaving the house, the first person one meets on New Year’s Day, literally ‘someone who meets or is met’),
from quaail (meeting, also action of meeting) + -agh, suffix expressing belonging, with insertion of -t-, perhaps by association with an unattested reflex of Early Irish comaltae (foster-brother, companion)
EXAMPLE
“…Again we assemble, a merry New Year,
To wish to each one of the family here,
Whether man, woman, or girl or boy,
That long life and happiness all may enjoy.
May they of potatoes and herrings have plenty,
With butter and cheese, and each other dainty,
And may their sleep never, by night or by day,
Disturbed be by even the tooth of a flea,
Until at the Quaaltagh again we appear
To wish you, as now, all a happy New Year!…”
From: An historical and statistical account of the Isle of Man
– Joseph Train, 1845
Note: A company of young lads or men generally went in old times on what they termed the Qualtagh, at Christmas or New Year’s Day, to the houses of their more wealthy neighbours; some one of the company repeating in an audible voice the following rhyme:
“Ollick ghennal erriu as blein feer vie;
Seihll as slaynt da’n slane lught thie
Bea as gennallys eu bio ry cheilley,
Shee as graih eddyr mraane as deiney
Cooid as cowryn, stock as stoyr.
Palchey phuddase, as skaddan dy-liooar;
Arran as caashey, eeym as roayrt ;
Baase, myr lugh, ayns uhllin ny soalt;
Cadley sauchey tra vees shiu ny lhie,
As feeackle y jargan, nagh bee dy mie.”
‘When this was repeated they were then invited in to partake of the best that the house could afford. (See example above for a translation.)
From: Dictionary of the Manks language, with the corresponding words or explanations in English, interspersed with many Gaelic proverbs
– Archibald Cregeen, 1835
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin occīs-, past participial stem of occidere (to kill)
EXAMPLE
“…[ ] was vmquhile to vtheris done disprise
Witnes, Acteon quhome that je gart occise,
With his awin doggis quhair je him haistelie
Conuertit in ane Hart throw jour fantice…”
From: Ane treatise callit the court of Venus
– John Rolland, 1575
ETYMOLOGY
from hob (a generic name for a rustic, a clown) + lob (a country bumpkin, a clown)
EXAMPLE
“…By Phoebe to Delos, his natiue countrie seat, hastning.
Hee poincts a dawnsing, foorthwith the rustical hoblobs
Of Cretes, of Driopes, and paincted clowns Agathyrsi
Dooe fetch their gambalds hopping neere consecrat altars…”
From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Æneis tr. intoo English heroical verse
– translated by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from somni- (combining form of Latin somnus sleep), + loquacious
EXAMPLE
My somniloquacious sister kept me awake so many nights that I finally wore earplugs.
ETYMOLOGY
from tickle + tongue
EXAMPLE
“…yet notwithstanding he was so crost in the nycke of thys determination, that his hystorie in mitching wyse wandred through sundry hands, and being therwithall in certaine places somewhat tyckle tongued (for M. Campion dyd learne it to speake) and in other places ouer spare, it twitled more tales out of schoole…”
From: Introduction to The firste (laste) volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (Raphael Holinshed, 1577)
– Richard Stanyhurst
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin laniāt-, participial stem of laniare (to tear)
EXAMPLE
“…Wail for the little partridges on porringer and plate;
Cry for the ruin of the fries and stews well marinate:
Keen as I keen for loved, lost daughters of the Kata-grouse,
And omelette round the fair enbrowned fowls agglomerate:
O fire in heart of me for fish, those deux poissons I saw,
Bedded on new made scones and cakes in piles to laniate.
For thee, O vermicelli! aches my very maw! I hold
Without thee every taste and joy are clean annihilate
Those eggs have rolled their yellow eyes in torturing pains of fire
Ere served with hash and fritters hot, that delicatest cate….”
From: Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
– translated by Richard Francis Burton, 1885
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ostrea (oyster) + -o- connective + -phagous (combining form, feeding on a specified kind of food)
EXAMPLE
“…A great advantage to the ostreophagous part of our population…”
From: Daily News (London), February 17, 1882
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