ETYMOLOGY
from churl + -y
EXAMPLE
“… But all this while, the shop where Jonah sleeps,
Is tost, and torne, and batter’d on the deeps,
And well-nigh split upon the threatning Rock,
With many a boystrous brush, and churley knock.
God help all desp’rate voyagers, and keepe
All such, as feele thy wonders on the deepe. …”
From: Divine poems: containing the History of -Jonah. Ester. Job. Samson.; Sions – sonets. Elegies.
By Francis Quarles, 1638
ETYMOLOGY
formed from Old English clibbor (sticky, adhesive);
related to Old English clifian (to cleave, adhere)
EXAMPLE
“… Which tother spying well, hotly pursues his poynt,
And each proffred resistance, chops off ioynt by ioynt,
Threatning, insisting, striking, wounding, reuelling,
Till meeke disarm’d stilnes proclaim’d his conquering:
Then clibbie ladder gainst his battered flanck hereares,
And vp it him, and he it vp, slow scaling beares. …”
From: A Herrings Tayle
By Richard Carew, 1598
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin claudicare,
from claudus lame
EXAMPLE
“… Toss’d, half the night, as Vulcan a whole morn,
No Lemnian there to catch the wretch forlorn;
Till his last step to claudicate in gait,
Like him halt, hobble, and hallucinate! …”
From: The Vestriad: A Poem
By Hans Busk, 1820
Canto IV. The Descent.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin coinquinat- participial stem of coinquinare (to defile all over),
from co- (together) + inquinare (to defile)
EXAMPLE
“... For the wele publyke
Of preesthode in this case
And alwayes to chase
Suche maner of sysmatykes
And halfe-heretykes
That wolde intoxicate
That wolde conquinate
That wolde contemminate
And that wolde vyolate
And that wolde derogate
And that wolde abrogate
The churche hygh estates…”
From: Colyn Cloute
By John Skelton, a1529
ETYMOLOGY
from clod (lump) + pate (head)
EXAMPLE
“… VVHat Clod-pates, Thenot, are our Brittish swains,
How lubber-like they loll upon the plains?
No life, no spirit in ’em; every Clown
Soone as he layes his Hook and Tarbox down,
That ought to take his Reed, and chant his layes,
Or nimbly run the winding of the Maze,
Now gets a bush to roam himselfe, and sleepe;
Tis hard to know the shepheard from the sheepe. …”
From: By Thomas Randall/Randolph
in: Annalia Dubrensia, vpon the yeerely celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games vpon Cotswold-Hills, 1636
Edited by Alexander Grosart, 1877
ETYMOLOGY
apparently originally from cock (an edible bivalve mollusc found on the coasts of Britain, probably a cockle, obs.) + bell
EXAMPLE (for n. 2)
“… My beard had sometimes yce on it as big as my little finger, my breath turning into many cock-bells as I walked…”
From: The Bargrave MS. Diary, 1645
in A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in use in the County of Kent
By William Douglas Parish, & William Francis Shaw, 1887
ETYMOLOGY
from corky (flighty, frivolous) + noddle (head)
EXAMPLE
“… She’s no farouchie nor furfluther’d,
No tetherfaced, thrawnmou’t, nor touthert;
Nae corkynoddle runk wi’ crawtaes. …”
From: Dorothea M. Ogilvy’s “Poems“, 1873;
Willie Wabster’s Wooing
ETYMOLOGY
apparently from clapper (the tongue of a bell) + dudgeon (hilt of a dagger):
the origin of the appellation is unknown.
John P. Collier (writer and scholar) suggests ‘from his knocking the clapdish (which beggars carried) with a knife or dudgeon’.
EXAMPLE
“… A pallyarde
These Palliards be called also Clapperdogens, these go with patched clokes, & haue their Morts with them, which they cal wiues and if he goe to one house to aske his almes, his wife shal goe to another, for what they get, as bread, cheese, malte, and well, they sel the same for redy money, for so they get more, and if they went together, although they be this deuided in the daie, yet they mete iompe at night. …”
From: A Caueat for Commen Cursetors vvlgarely called uagabones
By Thomas Harman, 1567
ETYMOLOGY
from cover (to put or something over an object, with the effect of hiding from view or protecting) + slut (an untidy, dirty, or slovenly woman; a woman who is habitually careless, lazy, or negligent with regard to appearance, household cleanliness, etc.)
EXAMPLE
“… But as it is a sad thing that the grace of God pretended, should be used as a pander unto wantonness, so it is no less hateful, that the providence of God should be misapplied as a cover-slut of idleness, ignorance, and unconscionableness: for who knowes not that our life is so in Gods hand, as it is ordinarily preserved ro lost by the use or want of things proper thereto? even hunger if self would be certainly mortal, if not appeased by meat appropriated thereto by the appointment of God. …”
From: Natures explication and Helmont’s vindication.
Or A short and sure way to a long and sound life.
By George Starkey, 1658
also CLOTTIMAULS
ETYMOLOGY
from ‘clotty‘ related to clot (vb.);
with ‘mauls‘ ‘mauley‘ (the hand, fist, sl.)
EXAMPLE
“… sich a passionate chap, I wor afreead o´ his clottymoles comin´ i´ contact wi´ my bowster: soa thowt I, I´d wesh ´em, an´ just sponge my cloas dahn at t´ same toime. …”
From: The Salamanca Corpus
Wadsley Jack; or, The Humours & Adventures of a Travelling Cutler
By Reuben Hallam, 1866
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