ETYMOLOGY
from Latin salarium (salary) + -ate
EXAMPLE
“… The Sanhedrim of Israel being the Supream, and a constant Court of Judicature could not choose but be exceeding gainful. The Senate of the Bean in Athens, because it was but annual, was moderately salariated, but that of the Areopagites being for life bountifully; what advantages the Senators of Lacedemon had, where there was little mony or use of it, was in honour for life. …”
From: The Common-Wealth of Oceana
By James Harrington, 1656
ETYMOLOGY
from windy (1. speaking at length; 2. of food or drink: causing flatulence) + wallet (possibly from Scottish sense of a fund of stories, poems, recollections, etc.)
EXAMPLE
“… Gowkscroft and Barnside,
Windy-wallets fu’ o’ pride;
Monynut, and Laikyshiel,
Plenty milk, plenty meal;
Straphunton Mill, and Bankend,
Green cheese as teugh as bend;
Shannabank and Blackerstane,
Pike the flesh to the bane;
Quixwood, and Butterdean,
Lu’ o’ parritch to the een! …”
From: The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs of the County of Berwick
By George Henderson, 1856
ETYMOLOGY
irregular from Stentor (a Greek warrior in the Trojan war, ‘whose voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men’) + -ic
EXAMPLE
“… And to chain up the tongues of five hundred cackling gossips he held, and with great reason, an exploit worth recording. Indeed he appears to have taken the most effectual method with them, that is, to out-clamour them: For thus he measures out his own Stentoronic voice. …”
From: The Doctrine of Grace: or, the Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit vindicated from the Insults of Infidelity, and the Abuses of Fanaticism
By William Warburton, 1763
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin propudiosus (shameful, infamous), from propudium (a shameful action),
(from pro- + pudere (to make ashamed) + -ium) + -osus (-ous)
EXAMPLE
“… Yea in the Cirque or Race-yard, (where was the greatest Concourse of People) they de-cryed Iulian; calling vpon Niger, the chiefest Officer of the sacred Empire, to vindicate the Roman State, and hasten to free them from that propudious Gouernour . ….”
From: Herodian of Alexandria His History of Twenty Roman Cæsars
Interpreted out of the original Greek by James Maxwell, 1629
ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated from noddy (a fool, a simpleton)
EXAMPLE
“… Lastly it is no where to be shewed, that Christ gaue any speciall commaundement, that Peter should remooue his seat from Antioche to Rome. If this hoddy Noddy thinke otherwise, let him if he canne, bring foorth his proofes, and shew where this commaundement is to be séene. …”
From: A briefe replie to a certaine odious and slanderous libel, lately published by a seditious Iesuite,
By Matthew Sutcliffe, 1600
ETYMOLOGY
alteration of cockabell, cockerbell, variants of cocklebell (an icicle);
probably after English dialect conker (snail-shell)
EXAMPLE
“… An’ leetle Bob! tha daps o’s veather,
Hoi, wull, us did count on un, reather :
Yer Bobby yer’s tha crickett,
Tha chield’s avroared, tha conkerbells
Be hangin’ to un — Yett theesel,
Bob — Yen thick auther thicket. …”
From: Jim and Nell: a Dramatic Poem in the dialect of North Devon
By William Frederick Rock, 1867
ETYMOLOGY
from babble (to talk excessively, to chatter quickly) + -iaminy (of uncertain origin)
EXAMPLE
“… Out you babliaminy, you vnfetherd cremitoryed queane, you cullisance of scabiosity. …”
From: A Trick to Catch the Old-one
By Thomas Middleton, 1608
ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin;
possibly from frample (to put in disorder)
EXAMPLE
“… This is the laund that bigs the winds; winds big the cloods;
the cloods, the weit, the weit, the grun; an antrin steer
o syle an rain. Thon frimple-frample watter rowin
frae Kenmore tae Dundee is cried the River Tay. …”
From: Wild Mushrooms: Writings
By Kate Armstrong, 1993
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin calens, calentem present participle of calere (to be hot)
EXAMPLE
“… The Lion also is a signification of the Sun, for the hairs of his mane do resemble the streaming beams of the Sun, and therefore this constellation is styled with the same Epithets that the Lion and the Sun are, as heat-bearing, aestive, ardent, arent,
calent, hot, flammant, burning, Herculean, mad, horrible, dreadful, cruel, and terrible. It is feigned of the Poets, that this Lion was the Nemaean Lion slain by Hercules, which at the commandment of Juno was fostered in Arcadia, and that in anger against Hercules after his death, she placed him in the heavens. …”
From: The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents describing at large their true and lively figure, their several names, conditions, kinds, virtues …
By Edward Topsell, 1607
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin nugatorius (frivolous, insignificant, worthless) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… The tenet of the Catholick Church concerning Angels and Devils, that they are invisible spirits created of God in their own distinct substances separate from men, is nugatorious: that the Angels are only qualities and motions which God inspires into men, that the Devils are nothing but only boggles in the night to terrifie men arising from mens imaginations. …”
From: Anabaptism, the true fountaine of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, and the most of the other errours, which for the time doe trouble the Church of England, vnsealed
By Robert Baillie, 1647
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