ETYMOLOGY
from drizzling + miserable
EXAMPLE
“… As loggers used to say, two ‘drizzerable‘ days of sullen wet wind blew by before I dared risk the open lake in the canoe. To mollify my impatience, I spent the time rethinking the cabin logs, rebracing roof members, and chopping wood, should I decide to spend another winter there. …”
From: The Bears and I
By Robert Franklin Leslie, 1971
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from still (adj.) + worth, after stalworth
EXAMPLE
From: Laȝamon; Layamon: Brut, c1300
Edited from British Museum ms. Cotton Caligula A.IX and British Museum ms. Cotton Otho C.XIII
Edited by George Leslie Brook and Roy Francis Leslie, 1963
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from honey (n.) + fugle (to cheat, trick),
perhaps after dialect connyfogle (to deceive)
EXAMPLE
“… Let it be borne in mind that Sharp is a willing, a swift, and a long-winded witness, having come from the Territory, two thousand miles off, mainly for the purpose of devoting to the sitting Delegate the benefit of his counsel and his oath. Pardon me for using the word; but Sharp ‘honey-fuggled‘ around me; He came to me, and stated that Chapman wanted him to make an affidavit, but that he would rather not do it; that he had declined doing it; and thus he misled me and threw me off my guard, and then a few days afterwards, he makes this affidavit, gets on board the cars, and left the city for western Iowa, to pull wires in politics to secure his own election to the Iowa Legislature; …”
From: United States. Congress. Congressional Globe; Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Congress 1855 – 1856
Nebraska Contested Election.
Speech of Hon. H. P. Bennet of Nebraska,
In the House of Representatives, July 22, 1856.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin capere (to take) + -ious
EXAMPLE
“… The wonderfullest and most meruaylous
That euer yet were seen tofore
Wherof no wyght by kynde is capyous
First how god to saue that was forlore
Lowly in erthe list to be bore
And how a mayde in hir virgynyte
Myght also chylde and a moder be …”
From: The Lyf of our Lady
By John Lydgate, 1484
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin; perhaps Celtic
EXAMPLE
“… With fair tretie ʒit scho gart hir vpryse,
And to the burde thay went and togidder sat,
And scantlie had thay drunkin anis or twyse,
Quhen in come Gib hunter our Iolie Cat,
And bad God speid, the Burges vp with that,
And till the hole scho went as fyre on flint,
Bawdronis the vther be the bak hes hint. ….”
From: The Morall Babillis of Esope the Phrygian
By Robert Henryson, a1500
PRONUNCIATION
BAW-druhnz
ETYMOLOGY
from revel (exuberant merrymaking) + rout (a company or assemblage of persons)
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Counter he coude (Olux) vpon a potte
An estryche fedder of a capons tayle
He set vp fresshely vpon his hat a lofte
What reuell route quod he and gan to rayle
How ofte he hadde hit Ienet on the tayle
Of felyce fetewse dnd lytell prety cate
How ofte he knocked at her klycked gate …”
From: Here begynneth a lytell treatyse named The Bowge of Courte
By John Skelton, 1499
ETYMOLOGY
alteration of acrimony, punningly after agreement
EXAMPLE
“... Upon my Reputation, Madam, you’re a civil well-bred Person, you have all the Agreemony of your Sex, La Bell Talie, la Boon Mien, & reparteét bien, and are tout one toore, as I’me a Gentleman, fort agreeable. — If this do not please your Lady, and Nauseate her, the Devil’s in ’em both for unreasonable Women. …”
From: Sir Patient Fancy: a comedy
By Aphra Behn, 1678
ETYMOLOGY
adj.: from Latin dilucidatus, past participle of dilucidare (to make clear, to explain), from dilūcidus (clear, bright)
vb: from Latin dilucidat- participial stem of dilucidare (to make clear, to explain)
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“… .For we folowe not only a standynge text of the Hebrue, with the interpretacion of the Caldee, and the Greke, but we set, also, in a pryvate table, the dyversite of redinges of all textes, with suche annotacions, in another table, as shall douteles delucidate and cleare the same; as well without any singularyte of opinions, as all checkinges and reprofes. The prynt, no doubt, shall please your good Lordship. …”
From: State papers, published under the authority of His Majesty’s Commission. King Henry the Eighth
Coverdale and Grafton to Crumwell, 1538
ETYMOLOGY
from grin (vb.)
EXAMPLE
“… Fyrst, bycause none haue ye Prophets marke but such as be godly & lament wickednesse. But many of the diuels children, grinagods and such other, be crossed, and cursed to. Then also the proportion is so farre different, that there is no likenesse betwixt them. But for the likenesse of the effect, they may be well compared together. …”
From: An Aunsvvere to the Treatise of the Crosse wherin ye shal see by the plaine and vndoubted word of God, the vanities of men disproued
By James Calfhill, 1565
ETYMOLOGY
adj.: from Latin periclitatus (tried, tested, endangered) past participle of periclitari
vb: from Latin periclitat-, past participial stem of periclitari (to expose to risk, danger, or peril), from periculum, periclum (trial, risk, danger)
EXAMPLE (for adj.
“… He alone be not noted to be the occasion of longer division werre and hostilite in Cristendome, wherby the hole state of the same may be periclitate and put in extreme daunger, but that by deliverance of the Frenche King, upon a convenient rawnsom, ther may ensue, God willing, generall peax bitwene al Cristen Princes, wherin He shal, besides the thanke of God, adquire more honour, than though by extreme force and violence He had attayned suche an other realme as Fraunce is. …”
From: State papers, published under the authority of His Majesty’s Commission. King Henry the Eighth, 1830
King Henry VIII. to Tunstall, &c., 1525
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