ETYMOLOGY
– from French accabler (to confound, to overwhelm)
EXAMPLE
“…Why you ‘olly cabobble me…”
(Note: ‘olly = wholly)
From: Suffolk Words and Phrases;
Or, An Attempt to Collect The Lingual Localisms of that County
By Edward Moor, 1823
ETYMOLOGY
– an alliterative formation from ? fag (vb. to fail from weariness, to falter) + fuff (see Dictionary of the Scots language)
EXAMPLE
“…The widow is nae fag-ma-fuff…”
From: Poems
Willie Wabster’s Wooing and Wedding
Dorothea Maria Ogilvy, 1868
ETYMOLOGY
– from orthography + –ize;
from Old French ortografie, later ortographie, modern French orthographie, from Latin orthographia,
from Greek ὀρθογραϕία, noun from ὀρθογράϕ-ος (writing correctly, a correct writer, orthographer),
from ὀρθό-ς + -γράϕος (that writes, writer) + ize
EXAMPLE
“…whiles thou mak’st a tennis-court of their faces, by brick-walling thy clay-balls crosse up and downe their cheekes; whereas, if thou wert right orthographizd in the doctors elocution, thou wouldst say, in stead of, I pray, Sir, winke I must wash you, Sir, by your favour I must require your connivence…”
From: Haue with you to Saffron-Walden; or, Gabriell Harueys hunt is vp
Thomas Nashe, 1596
ETYMOLOGY
– ? reduplication of ninny
EXAMPLE
“…Yes , do , my pretty little ninny nonny,
And when I’ve done , I’ll whip your brother Johnny…”
From: Visions of Taste. A Satire.
By David Douglas, 1823
Part I. Sect. II
Vision I, The School of Poetry
ETYMOLOGY
– a jocular corruption of melancholy
EXAMPLE
“…The devil was a little colli-mollie, and would not come off…”
From: A Glossary, Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc.
By Robert Nares, 1822
ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin acersecomēs (long-haired youth);
from Greek ἀκερσεκόµης (with unshorn hair) + –ic
EXAMPLE
“…Her black hair was pulled back in a long ponytail which covered more than half of her back; she could be easily mistaken for an Acersecomic…”
From: Vortex
Rohit Padala, 2017
ETYMOLOGY
– from Anglo-Norman crious (also crieis, criois) clamorous,
from crier (vb. cry) + –ous
EXAMPLE
“… A fool womman, and crious sat in the ʒate doris of hir hous…”
From: The Holy Bible
Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and His Followers.
Edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederic Madden.
Volume III, 1850
Proverbs, Cap. IX
ETYMOLOGY
– from jumble + gut, suggesting much shaking
EXAMPLE
“…We cannot bring the wagon down that jumble-gut lane—we’re liable to break an axle!…”
From: https://www.proverbmeaning.com/vn/idiom/jumble-gut+lane
ETYMOLOGY
from rotund (adj.) + -ant, after quadrant
EXAMPLE
“…He is a good anatomist to scrue into the very center of a loaf, and to pry into the joynt of separation. A good surveyour only, he measures not by the chaine nor the quadrant, no, by the retundant* rather, i.e. the jugg…”
From: Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs,
Or, A Dish of Traitorous Tyrants
K.W., 1661
Note: – * ‘retundant’ as shown in the above example is correct
– The Oxford English Dictionary only shows ‘rotundant’ as a noun.
However, there are examples of it being used as an adjective, as in this example from 1846:
“…“Oh!” exclaimed the rotundant figure of the queen…”
ETYMOLOGY
– a burlesque formation on flam (a fanciful notion, caprice, whim obs.)
EXAMPLE
“…To these were added a number of the minor order of exhibitors. In one place you saw the miraculous and flambuginous sea-monster, known by the name of the Non-Descript. Next to it stood the Musical Rat, which played most divinely on the mouth-organ…”
From: The Sporting Magazine of the Transactions of The Turf, The Chase,
And every other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit.
Volume 42, 1813
Easter Amusements of the Year 1813
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