ETYMOLOGY
from taste (n.) + -some
EXAMPLE
“… Laugh not at me, Herr Norton, ‘the good digestion waits on appetite, and health on both.’ Ate I never anything more tastesome, — say you not so?” said fraulein amiably. …”
From: A Georgian Bungalow
by Frances Courtenay Baylor, 1900
ETYMOLOGY
from past participial stem of Latin pertolerat- (to bear out, endure to the end)
EXAMPLE
It seems impossible that anyone could pertolerate such pain for so long.
ETYMOLOGY
apparently originally from cock (an edible bivalve mollusc found on the coasts of Britain, probably a cockle, obs.) + bell
EXAMPLE (for n. 2)
“… My beard had sometimes yce on it as big as my little finger, my breath turning into many cock-bells as I walked…”
From: The Bargrave MS. Diary, 1645
in A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in use in the County of Kent
By William Douglas Parish, & William Francis Shaw, 1887
ETYMOLOGY
from French bel (fair) + amour (love)
EXAMPLE (for n. 1)
“… Loe loe how braue she decks her bounteous boure,
With silken curtens and gold couerlets,
Therein to shrowd her sumptuous Belamoure,
Yet neither spinnes nor cardes, ne cares nor frets,
But to her mother Nature all her care she lets. …”
From: The Faerie Queene
By Edmund Spenser, 1590
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin malus (bad) + -ferous (bearing, producing)
EXAMPLE
“… I had really forgotten to mention that gallant, fine-hearted soldier, who – as I heard to my infinite regret, shared by every one who knew his kindly, honest, genial nature – fell a victim to the maliferous climate of China! …”
From: From: My Diary in India, In the Year 1858-9,
By William Howard Russell, Volume I, 1860
Cowasjee’s Shop
ETYMOLOGY
from hare + hearted
EXAMPLE
“… Two right Hare-harted coward Fooles,
Would end their wrath with Cutlers tooles,
And two moft fhifting Knaues intends,
To make thofe Cowards louing friends:
One goes to th’one, and tell’s him tother,
Vowes he doth loue him as his Brother;
And would a Supper on him fpend :
That Cuppes of Sacke their ftrife might end, …”
From: A Fooles Bolt is Soone Shot
By Samuel Rowlands, 1614
ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman orguillous, orgeillus, orgoilous, orgullous,
orgulous, orgulus, orgilous, orgillus and Old French orguillus,
orgoillus, orguilleus, orgueilleux;
from orgueil (pride, haughtiness) + ‑ous
EXAMPLE 1 (for adj. 1.)
“… yet habbeþ manitime maked of watere wyn; gostliche. wanne þurch his grace maked of þo euele manne good man. of þe orgeilus umble. of þe lechur chaste. of þe niþinge large. and of alle oþre folies; so ha maket of þo watere wyn. þis his si signefiance of þe miracle. …”
From: An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century
Edited by Richard Morris, 1872
EXAMPLE 2 (for adj. 1)
”…I was banished from my own country, and was dishonoured, and with hard labour gained I what I have got ; and now I stand in the King’s favour, and he asketh of me my daughters for the Infantes of Carrion. They are of high blood and full orgullous, and I have no liking to this match ; but if our Lord the King adviseth it we can do no other-wise: …”
From: Chronicle of the Cid
By Robert Southey, 1808
ETYMOLOGY
from flatter (vb.) + cap
EXAMPLE
“… He’s struggling to learn a lot of new things, but I also think he’s trying to do whatever he can to get on with the men.
I’ve seen him behaving like a flattercap, all yes sir, no sir, with a seaman named Brian Blount. …”
From: Trouble on the Voyage : The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of the Henrietta Maria
By Bob Barton, 2010
ETYMOLOGY
from corky (flighty, frivolous) + noddle (head)
EXAMPLE
“… She’s no farouchie nor furfluther’d,
No tetherfaced, thrawnmou’t, nor touthert;
Nae corkynoddle runk wi’ crawtaes. …”
From: Dorothea M. Ogilvy’s “Poems“, 1873;
Willie Wabster’s Wooing
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin epulum (feast, banquet) + -ous
EXAMPLE
The epulous employees finished off all the catered food at the Christmas work party, and were working at emptying the contents of the bar when the boss called it a night.
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