ETYMOLOGY
from cugger (to hold a confidential conversation)
EXAMPLE
“…There was a great laugh at Tim’s answer; and then there was a whispering, and a great cugger mugger and coshering; and at last a pretty little bit of a voice said, “Shut your eyes, and you’ll see, Tim…”
From: Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.
By Thomas Crofton Croker, 1859
Treasure Legends. Dreaming Tim Jarvis
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ἀδιάϕορ-ος (indifferent) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…From all which may be inferred, that dissentions among the protestantes are not merely personall, or but pointes adiaphorous, indifferent, being as it were but peccant humors, and not true or formed diseases in their church, but they do concerne most profound doubtes of their religion, since otherwaies they would neuer anathematize, or condemne one an other with such acerbity of wordes…”
From: Whyte Dyed Black
Or A discouery of many most foule blemishes, impostures, and deceiptes
– Thomas Worthington, 1615
ETYMOLOGY
from heart + -some
EXAMPLE
“…And ze defend the cruell Jesabell
Than Baallis Priestis will cal zow verray kynde
Now euerie Dowglas of ane hartsum mynde,
Thinke on dame Margaret sumtyme in the towre,
And of young Charles prudent of Ingyne…”
From: Heir Followis ane Ballat Declaring the Nobill and Gude Inclinatioun of Our King
– Robert Sempill, 1567
ETYMOLOGY
from joly, jolie (jolly) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Wantoun and blyith, and euer geuin to sport,
And efter drink desyrous of comfort:
Iocund with Ioy, and Iolyous to Iaip,
With mockis and mowis of nature as the Aip.
And he that hes the nature of the fyre,
Is euer hait, in crabitnes, and Ire…”
From: Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venus
– John Rolland, 1575
ETYMOLOGY
from idea + pot
EXAMPLE
“…Going t’other day to the bookseller’s with my idea-pot brim-full, and ready to run over, I stole up, as usual, into the Author’s Coenaculum. – This, by the bye, is an apartment at the top of BARRETT’s house in he High-Street…”
From: The Student
Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, Volume 2
The Adventures of a Goose-Quill, Oxford, March 2, 1751
ETYMOLOGY
?? huddle is an obsolete word for a miserly old person
EXAMPLE
“…Yea, in the worde of one no more wealthy then hee was, (wealthy saide I? may I’le be sworne hee was a grande iurie man in respect of me,) those graybeard Huddle-duddles and crusty cum-twangs were strooke with stuch stinging remorse of their miserable Euclionisme and snudgery…”
From: Lenten Stuffe
– Thomas Nashe, 1599
ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
EXAMPLE
“…Was there ever less head in a brainless world?” said Johns. “Here, simple Nocky, I’ll do it.” He leapt off, and with much puffing climbed the post, striking a match when he reached the top, and moving the light along the arm, the lad standing and gazing at the spectacle…”
From: The English Illustrated Magazine
1883-1884
Interlopers at the Knap. I.
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…This Stymphalist is he that with fiue or sixe Tenements, and the retinue thereunto belonging, infectes the aire with stench, and poisons that parish, yea and twentie parishes off with the contagion of such carrion as lies there in their bumble baths, and stinke at both ends like filthie greene elder pipes. For him and them master, such Landlordes and such Tenants. Good master wish as I wish…”
From: Maroccus Extaticus.
Or, Bankes bay horse in a trance
A discourse set downe in a merry dialogue, betweene Bankes and his beast: anatomizing some abuses and bad trickes of this age.
– By Iohn Dando the wierdrawer of Hadley, and Harrie Runt, head ostler of Bosomes Inne, 1595
ETYMOLOGY
from gripple (niggardly, usurious) + -minded
EXAMPLE
“…L. BEAU. That a man of your estate should be so gripple-minded and repining at his wife’s bounty!…”
From: Any Thing for a Quiet Life
– Thomas Middleton and Thomas Webster, a1632
ETYMOLOGY
from bigot + -ical
EXAMPLE
“…Or is any thing the more excellent and Venerable, because it exceeds all Understanding? Is he to be deemed the fittest subject for Religion, who is most Bigotical and carelesly credulous? Are we to put off Humane Nature that we may become Religious?…”
From: A discourse of the use of reason in matters of religion shewing that Christianity contains nothing repugnant to right reason, against enthusiasts and deists
– George Rust, translated Henry Hallywell, a1670
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