ETYMOLOGY
– from jingle + brains
EXAMPLE
“…We left these Jingle Brains to their Crotchets , and proceeded to the West end of the Cathedral , where we past by abundance of Apples, Nuts, and GingerBread, till we came to a melancholly Multitude , drawn into a Circle , giving very serious Attention to a blind Ballad-singer who was mournfully setting forth the wonderful Usefulness…”
From: The London-spy Compleat, in Eighteen Parts,
Edward Ward, 1718
ETYMOLOGY
– ? a cross between blib (a weak, watery portion, as of tea, etc.) and ribbons
EXAMPLE
“…Now, Jenny, min’, nae blibbans in the kail the day.”
From: Supplement to Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary, 1887
ETYMOLOGY
– from French accabler (to confound, to overwhelm)
EXAMPLE
“…Why you ‘olly cabobble me…”
(Note: ‘olly = wholly)
From: Suffolk Words and Phrases;
Or, An Attempt to Collect The Lingual Localisms of that County
By Edward Moor, 1823
ETYMOLOGY
– an alliterative formation from ? fag (vb. to fail from weariness, to falter) + fuff (see Dictionary of the Scots language)
EXAMPLE
“…The widow is nae fag-ma-fuff…”
From: Poems
Willie Wabster’s Wooing and Wedding
Dorothea Maria Ogilvy, 1868
ETYMOLOGY
– from orthography + –ize;
from Old French ortografie, later ortographie, modern French orthographie, from Latin orthographia,
from Greek ὀρθογραϕία, noun from ὀρθογράϕ-ος (writing correctly, a correct writer, orthographer),
from ὀρθό-ς + -γράϕος (that writes, writer) + ize
EXAMPLE
“…whiles thou mak’st a tennis-court of their faces, by brick-walling thy clay-balls crosse up and downe their cheekes; whereas, if thou wert right orthographizd in the doctors elocution, thou wouldst say, in stead of, I pray, Sir, winke I must wash you, Sir, by your favour I must require your connivence…”
From: Haue with you to Saffron-Walden; or, Gabriell Harueys hunt is vp
Thomas Nashe, 1596
ETYMOLOGY
– ? reduplication of ninny
EXAMPLE
“…Yes , do , my pretty little ninny nonny,
And when I’ve done , I’ll whip your brother Johnny…”
From: Visions of Taste. A Satire.
By David Douglas, 1823
Part I. Sect. II
Vision I, The School of Poetry
ETYMOLOGY
– a jocular corruption of melancholy
EXAMPLE
“…The devil was a little colli-mollie, and would not come off…”
From: A Glossary, Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc.
By Robert Nares, 1822
ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin acersecomēs (long-haired youth);
from Greek ἀκερσεκόµης (with unshorn hair) + –ic
EXAMPLE
“…Her black hair was pulled back in a long ponytail which covered more than half of her back; she could be easily mistaken for an Acersecomic…”
From: Vortex
Rohit Padala, 2017
ETYMOLOGY
– from Anglo-Norman crious (also crieis, criois) clamorous,
from crier (vb. cry) + –ous
EXAMPLE
“… A fool womman, and crious sat in the ʒate doris of hir hous…”
From: The Holy Bible
Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and His Followers.
Edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederic Madden.
Volume III, 1850
Proverbs, Cap. IX
ETYMOLOGY
– from jumble + gut, suggesting much shaking
EXAMPLE
“…We cannot bring the wagon down that jumble-gut lane—we’re liable to break an axle!…”
From: https://www.proverbmeaning.com/vn/idiom/jumble-gut+lane
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