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
ETYMOLOGY
from rotund (adj.) + -ant, after quadrant
EXAMPLE
“…He is a good anatomist to scrue into the very center of a loaf, and to pry into the joynt of separation. A good surveyour only, he measures not by the chaine nor the quadrant, no, by the retundant* rather, i.e. the jugg…”
From: Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs,
Or, A Dish of Traitorous Tyrants
K.W., 1661
Note: – * ‘retundant’ as shown in the above example is correct
– The Oxford English Dictionary only shows ‘rotundant’ as a noun.
However, there are examples of it being used as an adjective, as in this example from 1846:
“…“Oh!” exclaimed the rotundant figure of the queen…”
ETYMOLOGY
– a burlesque formation on flam (a fanciful notion, caprice, whim obs.)
EXAMPLE
“…To these were added a number of the minor order of exhibitors. In one place you saw the miraculous and flambuginous sea-monster, known by the name of the Non-Descript. Next to it stood the Musical Rat, which played most divinely on the mouth-organ…”
From: The Sporting Magazine of the Transactions of The Turf, The Chase,
And every other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit.
Volume 42, 1813
Easter Amusements of the Year 1813
ETYMOLOGY
– from dilly as in dilly-dally + daw (n. a slattern, an untidy woman)
EXAMPLE
“…An’ is it no angersome to see her like a dilly daw, an’ bits o’ creatures that she could keep at her fire-side, buskit up like Flanders-babies?…”
From: The Saxon and the Gaël, Or, The Northern Metropolis
Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1814
ETYMOLOGY
– from Nup (a fool – of unknown origin) + son
EXAMPLE
“…I say Phantastes is a foolish transparent gull; a meere fanatick nupson in my immagination not worthie to sit as a Iud∣ges assistant…”
From: Lingua: or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Fiue Senses for Superiority,
A pleasant comoedie
Thomas Tomkis, 1607
ETYMOLOGY
– from Greek ἁβροδίαιτος (living delicately),
from ἁβρός (graceful, delicate) + δίαιτα (diet [way of feeding]) + -ical
EXAMPLE
“…Good lack a day, what pity ’tis such an abrodietical Person should want wherewith to accrew…”
From: A Very Good Wife: a Comedy
George Powell, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
– from quake + buttock
EXAMPLE
“…I rush’d into the world, which is indeed much like
The art of swimming, he that will attain to’t
Must fall plump, and duck himself at first,
And that will make him hardy and adventurous;
And not stand putting in one foot, and shiver,
And then draw t’other after, like a quake-buttock;
Well he may make a padler i’ the world,
From hand to mouth, but never a brave swimmer…”
From: (of uncertain date and authorship)
Wit at Severall Weapons, A Comedy, Act I,
W. Rowley and T. Middleton, a1627,
and in Comedies and Tragedies
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 1647
ETYMOLOGY
from ex- (prefix) + Latin cerebrum (brain) + -ose
EXAMPLE
“…It brands him at once as an excerebrose scallywag, an eviscerated elasmobranch, worthy of being hurled neck and crop along with Mendelssohn into the limbo of discredit desuetude…“
From: The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular,
Volume XXXVII, 1896
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek λόγος (word) + -latry
EXAMPLE
“…but one fanciful process of hypostasizing logical conceptions and generic terms? In Proclus it is Logolatry run mad…”
From: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, 1839, Volume IV
Notes on Whitaker’s Origin of Arianism Disclosed. 1810. Chapter I.
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