ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ante before + ambulat- ppl. stem of ambulare (to walk);
suggested by ante-ambulo (one whose business is to walk in front, an usher)
EXAMPLE
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don’t anteambulate me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
ETYMOLOGY
from OED: from West Germanic: Old English bísmer, -or (strong neuter), identical with Old High German bísmer (ridicule), from bí-, be- prefix (in its strong or accented form) + -smer, which Schmeller connects with Middle High German smier (a smile, laughing), smieren (to smile).
Others have compared Old High German smero, Old English smeoru, Old Germanic *smerwo-(m, ‘fat, grease, butter,’ which seems, on phonetic as well as other grounds, less probable.
EXAMPLE
“…And eek for sche was somdel smoterlich
Sche was as deyne as water in a dich
As ful of hokir and of bissemare
hir thoughte ladyes oughten hir to spare /
what for hir kynreed and hir nortelrye…”
From: The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, c1386
ETYMOLOGY
from oil + berry
EXAMPLE
“…And þer ſhal ben laft in it as þe braunche of a cluſter, and as þe ſhaking out of þe oile berie, as of two or of þre olyues in þe cop of þe braunch…”
From: Bible (Wycliffe, early version), a1382
ETYMOLOGY
from spatter (to scatter or disperse in fragments)
EXAMPLE
“...Or when the court removes, or what’s a clock,
Or where’s the wind (or some such windy mock)
With such fine scimble, scemble, spitter-spatter,
As puts me clean besides the money-matter?
Thus with poor mongrel shifts, with what, where when?…”
From: A Kicksey Winsey: Or, A Lerry Come-Twang
By John Taylor, 1619
ETYMOLOGY
possibly from maum (mellow, soft, esp. over-ripe) + –ish
EXAMPLE
“…but she fed more vpon fancie, than glutted hir selfe with any cates there presente: more vpon daintie deuices, than any parcell of repast: for this meate forsooth was mawmish, & this melancholie: this dish would driue hir to drincke, and this cause hir to drie…”
From: Narbonus The Laberynth of Libertie
By Austin Saker, 1580
ETYMOLOGY
from high + stomached
EXAMPLE
“…For the which in those dayes, they had moche a do with these hygh stomaked Romanes…”
From: The Actes of Englysh Votaryes
By Iohan Bale, 1546
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fracidus, from frac-, frax (lees of oil)
EXAMPLE
“…Natures recreation, which she out of the fracid ferment of putrifying Bodies doth form…”
From: The Reformed Common-wealth of Bees,
presented in several letters and observations to Samuel Hartlib, 1655
ETYMOLOGY
from penny + father
EXAMPLE
“…This skapethrifte, throweth his good{is} against the walles. That pennie father, skrapeth it togethers, bothe by God, and by the diuell…”
From: The Praise of Folie
Moriæ encomium a booke made in Latine by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame,
Translated by Thomas Chaloner Knight, 1549
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin derogatorius derogatory + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…if the said archbishop intermeddled after the said provocation, his doings were derogatorious not only to the dignity of the patriarche but to the supremacy of the Pope and to the authority also of the general Counsell…”
From: A Treatise on The Pretended Divorce Between Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon
By Nicholas Harpsfield, a1575
Modernized Text By Nicholas Pocock, 1878
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin insipientem, from in- + sapientem (wise, sapient)
EXAMPLE
“…Where the Chylde or Insypient drynkyth the swete and delycious wordis unauysydly…”
From: The New Cronycles of Englande & Fraunce
By Robert Fabyan, a1513
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