ETYMOLOGY
from lip + lick
EXAMPLE
“… Thee gay boy kindlye playing, thee knowne lads phisnomye taking:
That when Queene Dido shal col the, and smacklye bebasse thee,
When quaffing wynebols, when bancquets deyntye be serued,
When she shal embrace thee, when lyplicks sweetlye she fastneth;
That then thow be suer, too plant thy poysoned hoat looue. …”
From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis
Translated intoo English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from tire (to diminish, give out, come to an end, obs.) + -ling
EXAMPLE
“… So as they gazed after her a while,
Lo where a griesly Foster forth did rush,
Breathing out beastly lust her to defile:
His tyreling iade he fiercely forth did push,
Through thicke and thin, both ouer banke and bush
In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke,
That from his gorie sides the bloud did gush:
Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke,
And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke. …”
From: The Faerie Queene
By Edmund Spenser, 1590
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin hortus (garden) + colere (to inhabit) + –ous
EXAMPLE
The garden center offers a wide range of horticolous plants suited for various growing conditions.
ETYMOLOGY
from omni- combining form of Latin omnis (all) + nescient from Latin nescientem,
pres. pple. of nescire (to be ignorant), from ne (not) + scire (to know)
EXAMPLE
“… The appeal is generally from those who know something to those who know less – and at last to those who are omni-nescient. …”
From: A Report of Proceedings at a Public Meeting of the Merchants, Bankers, and Traders of the City of London, held at the London Tavern, on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1851
For a Reform of the Board of Customs
Part II. Chapter II. Appeals
ETYMOLOGY
from hurkle (to crouch, to stoop, to squat down)
EXAMPLE
“… Lang after peeping greke o’day,
In Hurkle Durkle Habbie lay,
Gae tae yer wark, ye dernan murkle,
And ly nae there in Hurkle Durkle. …”
Note: the phrase ‘in hurkle durkle‘ = in indolence
From: Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
By John Jamieson, 1825
ETYMOLOGY
compound of jocose and facetious
EXAMPLE
“… “Yes, you have, you saucy baggage, and I will have them again from your ruddy lips,” at the same time smacking them with great glee. The girl was glad to find the ‘squire so jococious, and particularly too, as he gave her a shilling, and a chuck under the chin. …”
From: The Child of Providence
Or, The Noble Orphan, A Novel
By Miss H. L. Porter, 1820
ETYMOLOGY
from two + tongued
EXAMPLE
“… Men sold to sinne offend my sight;
I hate the two-tongu’d Hypocrite:
Those who devise
Malicious lies,
And in their crimes delight. …”
From: A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David
By George Sandys, 1636
ETYMOLOGY
from rib (n.) + baste (to beat or thrash)
EXAMPLE
“… A good Pay-master (answered Sancho) will neuer grudge to giue wages; I thinke to curry or so be-labour my selfe, that without endangering my life, my lashes shall bee sensible vnto me, and therein must the substance of this miracle consist. And immediately Sancho stripped himselfe bare from the girdle vpward, and taking the whip in his hand, began to ribbe-baste and lash himselfe roundly; and Don Quixote to number the strokes. When Sancho had giuen himselfe seuen or eight stripes, hee thought he had killed himselfe; so that pawsing awhile, hee said to his Master, that he was very much deceiued, and would therfore appeale, forsomuch as euery whip-lash did in lieu of a piece of three Blanks, deserue halfe a Ryall. …”
From: The second part of The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mançha
Written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes
Translated by Thomas Shelton, 1620
ETYMOLOGY
from down (in a descending direction) + steepy (full of steep places, steep)
EXAMPLE
“… All which notwithstanding, perceiving life to remaine in him, he tooke heart againe; and getting vp on his feet, all goared with bloud, and loaden with strokes, making way through the prease, came to a craggie and downe-steepie rocke, where vnable to goe any further, by one of his wounds, with both his hands he pulled out his guts, and tearing and breaking them, cast them amongst such as pursued him, calling and attesting the vengeance of God to light vpon them. …”
From: The Essayes, or Morall, Politike, and Millitarie Discourses of Lord Michaell de Montaigne
By Michel de Montaigne
Translated by John Florio, 1603
ETYMOLOGY
from bull (trivial talk or nonsense) + squitter (to squirt, to spatter, to sputter)
EXAMPLE
She had everyone running around looking for her umbrella, but it was all bull-squitter as there wasn’t a cloud to be seen.
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