ETYMOLOGY
from bam (to hoax, to make fun of to impose upon the credulous) + bluster
EXAMPLE
“…”In course,” continued Joe, more soothed: “none but a Jolly would go to say anything again it, or doubt the woracity o’ the thing. Well, shipmates, to heave ahead, I’m saying I was reg’larly bamblustercated when one of the genelmen up in the niches squeaks out, ‘King Herod, I’ll just thank your for a thimble-full of the stuff.'” …”
From: Bentley’s Miscellany, Volume II, 1837
‘Nights at Sea’
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek ἀκυρολόγος (akyrologos) (incorrect in speech);
from ἀ (not) + κῦρος (authority) + λόγος (speech) + -ical
EXAMPLE
for adverb form – (‘acyrologically – incorrectly as regards the use of words’)
“…He saith, (but Magisterially without the least proof) that the Apostle speaks Acurologically and abusively; and by sanctified, means quasi, as if they were sanctified…”
From: Plain Scripture Proof of Infants Church-Membership and Baptism
By Richard Baxter, 1651
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek καταμειδιᾶν [katameidian] (to despise) + ‑ate
EXAMPLE
Politicians who make false, unrealistic promises are unethical, unscrupulous, immoral, and deceitful. Catamidiate them.
ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
EXAMPLE
“…I fell down, and they all capsized, turned turtle – heels up, nose down – every man Jack, one after the other, over each other’s legs. Never saw such a mix, A common-keeper, one of the lot, got a heavy oner on the boko for his share.’
‘Boys,’ said Mr. Hamblin, ‘who use slang come to the gallows. Boko is …’
‘Conk or boko,.’ said Nicolas the vulgar. ‘It’s all the same. Took it home in a bag made out of a picket-handkerchief.’…”
From: Time
A Monthly Miscellany of Interesting and Amusing Literature
Edited by Edmund Yates, Volume I, 1879
‘The Seamy Side’
By Walter Besant, and James Rice
ETYMOLOGY
in 16th–17th century France: apparently, a fanciful creation of Rabelais
EXAMPLE
“…My counsel to you in that case, my friend, is that you marry, quoth Hippothadee; for you should rather choose to marry once than to burn still in fires of concupiscence. Then Panurge, with a jovial heart and a loud voice, cried out, That is spoke gallantly, without circumbilivaginating about and about, and never hitting it in its centred point…”
From: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III.
By Francois Rabelais
Translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
from soiled (defiled) + dove (gentle, innocent, or loving woman)
EXAMPLE
“…In “A Daughter of Eve,” Mr. Hain Friswell, who is favourably known as a producer of light literature, introduces, by way of arousing a sensation, a young lady, whom he euphemistically styles “a soiled dove.” It is impossible to regard modern society without acknowledging the abundant existence of such persons…”
From: Dublin University Magazine
A Literary and Political Journal
January to June 1863
‘Modern Novel and Romance’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin spect-, ppl. stem of specere (to look)
EXAMPLE
“…Furthermore to make him more carefull to regard vertue, he planted into him very deepe rootes and prickes of conscience, hee added moreouer Statutes and Lawes, not onely emprinted within euery ones hart, but engrauen also outwardly in spectible Tables…”
From: Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall and against his slaunderous inuectiues An aunswere apologeticall.
By Walter Haddon and John Foxe
Translation by James Bell, 1581
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from pan- (all) + guts (the belly, stomach)
EXAMPLE
“…”Odzbodkins! You won’t spoil our sport,’ cried her husband. “Your crotchets are always coming in like a fox into a hen-roost.”
“I have work in hand that must be done,” replied his wife.
“Panguts!” she exclaimed, raising her voice and her fist at the same time, “what do you do? lazying about here like a mud-turtle nine days after it’s killed…”
From: Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
By Sylvester Judd, 1845
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps representative (with some change of sense) Old English fedels (fatted bird),
the Germanic base of feed (vb.) + the Germanic base of ‑els
EXAMPLE
(for n. 2)
“…It will be of a pretty little Infant: O how heartily I shall love it! I do
already dote upon it; for it will be my dainty Fedle-darling, my genteel Dilli-minion …”
From: The third book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais
Translation by Thomas Urquhart. 1693
ETYMOLOGY
from the Hebrew proper name Nabal (a wealthy sheep owner who refused to pay tribute to King David for protecting his flocks),
from nabal (a disgraceful, impious, or villainous person)
from nabal (to be foolish, act foolishly)
EXAMPLE
“…As for those men that resemble the rigorous iudge, that neither feare God, nor good man, that neuer thinke of the saluation of their sinful seduced soules, that either be Athiestes or Libertines or Machiuelians or Spend-thriftes or couetous Nabals or great Gamsters or Luxurious and Riotous persons or seditious and traiterous papists, are no fitte men to bee such a husband as I propose …”
From: A sermon preached at Trafford in Lancashire
By William Massie, 1586
PRONUNCIATION
NAY-buhl
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