ETYMOLOGY
for n.1., apparently a reduplication with vowel variation of trim (adj.);
for n. 2., apparently a whimsical application of n.1.
EXAMPLE
“…Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet;
A trym tram for an horse myll it were a nyse thyng;
Deyntes for dammoysels, chaffer far fet:
Bo ho doth bark wel, but Hough ho he rulyth the ring…”
From: Speke Parott
By John Skelton, 1523
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scrūtārī (to examine, scrutinize)
EXAMPLE
“…In no other maner or fassyon tem
Be the yeres of men whyche so sone over go
My synne and inequite why doste thou scrute so
And yet thou knowest that in me no synne shall be fande
Sythe no man may eschape thy mortall hande …”
From: The Prymer, Salysbery Use, 1536
ETYMOLOGY
from Anglo-Norman peisant, peisaunt, pesaunt, Anglo-Norman and Middle French pesant (of things – heavy, massive, oppressive, wearisome, difficult), (of the hand, a blow, etc. – forcible, coming down heavily), (of people – slow, sluggish), use as adjective of present participle of peiser , peser (to weigh)
EXAMPLE
“…But as for so poure a man as I, there would none aduocate pleden without wages paid byfore in honde; for pledours in worldly courtes hauen tonges lyke to t he languet of the balaunce that draweth hym alwey to the more peysaunt party, that better wyl rewarden…”
From: The Booke of the Pylgremage of the Sowle,
Translated from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville
ETYMOLOGY
from weed (n.) + -ling
EXAMPLE
“…PLANTING. MARCH 26.
This morning marked out the weedling-plants of a plantation, made by the late Sir William Harbord twenty-give to thirty years ago…”
From: The Rural Economy of Norfolk
By William Marshall, 1782
ETYMOLOGY
from French cagnard (sluggard)
(according to Littré, from Italian cagna bitch, fem. of cane dog)
EXAMPLE
“…He leneþ on is forke ase a grey frere
þis crokede caynard sore he is adred
Hit is mony day go þat he was here
ichot of is ernde he naþ nout ysped …”
From: The Harley Lyrics, a1350
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps after Middle French, French petit-fils (grandson, grandchild)
EXAMPLE
“… is the transporting ȝoure littil son and my onelie child in this countrey. To the quhilk albeit I be never sa willing, I wald be glaid to have ȝoure advyse therein, as in all uther thingis tuiching him. I have born him…”
From: The Love Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
– Hugh Campbell, 1824
Letter written to the Countess of Lennox, July 10, 1570
ETYMOLOGY
from buffle (buffalo; a fool) + brained (having a brain of the specific kind)
EXAMPLE
“…An’ there we would swing, an’ hang there we must,
Till the hoodoo was busted. Eternally cussed,
So he said, was the buffle-brained feller that dared
To touch the witch-web that was holding us snared…”
From: Up in Maine:
Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse
– Holman Day, 1900
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ex(s)ulantem, present participle of ex(s)ulare (to be in exile
EXAMPLE
“…This Emperor made his brother Heraclius a Generall, whom he sent into the East against the Agarens with a powerfull Army. He endeavoured to put Iustinian to death who was now exulant in Cersonia: but notwithstanding all his plots to that purpose, he prevailed nothing, not could he bring his intent to any effect…”
From: The lives of all the Roman emperors being exactly collected,
from Iulius Cæsar, unto the now reigning Ferdinand the second
– Giovanni Antonio de Paoli
Translated by Robert Basset, 1636
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin irreposcibilis (that cannot be demanded back),
from ir- + reposcere (to demand back)
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin maximus (greatest) + -ious
EXAMPLE
“…The pointment kept, and Skelton, seying the sumptuous coste, more pertaynyng for an emperoure or a maxymyous kynge, then for suche a man as he was (although cardynals wyll compare wyth kyngs)…”
From: Merie Tales of Skelton, 1567
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