ETYMOLOGY
– from Greek ἁβροδίαιτος (living delicately),
from ἁβρός (graceful, delicate) + δίαιτα (diet [way of feeding]) + -ical
EXAMPLE
“…Good lack a day, what pity ’tis such an abrodietical Person should want wherewith to accrew…”
From: A Very Good Wife: a Comedy
George Powell, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
– from quake + buttock
EXAMPLE
“…I rush’d into the world, which is indeed much like
The art of swimming, he that will attain to’t
Must fall plump, and duck himself at first,
And that will make him hardy and adventurous;
And not stand putting in one foot, and shiver,
And then draw t’other after, like a quake-buttock;
Well he may make a padler i’ the world,
From hand to mouth, but never a brave swimmer…”
From: (of uncertain date and authorship)
Wit at Severall Weapons, A Comedy, Act I,
W. Rowley and T. Middleton, a1627,
and in Comedies and Tragedies
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 1647
ETYMOLOGY
from ex- (prefix) + Latin cerebrum (brain) + -ose
EXAMPLE
“…It brands him at once as an excerebrose scallywag, an eviscerated elasmobranch, worthy of being hurled neck and crop along with Mendelssohn into the limbo of discredit desuetude…“
From: The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular,
Volume XXXVII, 1896
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek λόγος (word) + -latry
EXAMPLE
“…but one fanciful process of hypostasizing logical conceptions and generic terms? In Proclus it is Logolatry run mad…”
From: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, 1839, Volume IV
Notes on Whitaker’s Origin of Arianism Disclosed. 1810. Chapter I.
ETYMOLOGY
– from giggle + mug (n. face sl.)
EXAMPLE
“…She was a giggle-mug. She would giggle at every word…”
From: The Illustrated Weekly of India
Volume 85, 1964
ETYMOLOGY
– from ancient Greek ϕιλόκαλος (loving the beautiful);
from ϕιλο- (philo-) + καλός (beautiful) + –ist (suffix)
EXAMPLE
“…This poor, vindictive, solitary, and powerful creature, was a philocalist: he had a singular love of flowers and of beautiful women.”
From: Horae Subsecivae
Locke and Sydenham, with other occasional papers
By John Brown · 1858
ETYMOLOGY
– from Norwegian dialect flog (flight) + drift (busyness, diligence).
The -a- possibly represents a reduced form of Norwegian og (and).
ETYMOLOGY
– ? from cob (n. a blow; vb. to strike) + nobble (vb. to strike, to hit)
EXAMPLE
“…Charles: He who would from parties rob’ll
Finds out he’s in the wrong box.
Clem.: Him we’ll capture and cobnobble,
Open locks whoever knocks.”
From: Lacy’s Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Farces, Extravaganzas, Etc., Etc.
Volume 93, 1871
Robert Macaire, Or, The Roadside Inn Turned Inside Out.
By Henry J. Byron, Scene II
ETYMOLOGY
– from classical Latin quōmodocunque, a variant of quōmodocumque (in whatever way); from quōmodo (in what way) + cumque
EXAMPLE
“…whereof those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets have given of late such cannibal-like proofs, by their inhumanity and obdurate carriage towards some…”
From: The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight.
Reprinted From the Original Editions, 1834
The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, 1652
ETYMOLOGY
irregular formed on Latin minuĕre to lessen + -ate
EXAMPLE
– “The sole dissent about its composition, is in the tincture of the silk, and the weight of Musk, which some augment, others minuate“
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick:
Composed By The Illustrious Renodaeus,
Englished and Revised by Richard Tomlinson, of London, Apothecary, 1657
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