ETYMOLOGY
from Old French fruiss- lengthened stem of fruir (to enjoy),
from Latin *fruire (classical Latin frui deponent vb.)
EXAMPLE
“… I may not fruisshe tho iocunde clippinges that are redy to holy spirites. …”
From: The earliest English translation of the first three books of the De Imitatione Christi
By Thomas à Kempis, c1425
ETYMOLOGY
from fuddle one’s cap or nose (to get drunk);
from fuddle (to tipple, to booze)
EXAMPLE
“… The Fuddlecap, whose God’s the Vyne,
Lacks not the Sun if he have Wine;
By th’ Sun he only finds a way
To some cool Spring, to spend the day.
Shrill Flutes and Trumpets Souldiers love,
And scorn those fears that Women move. …”
From: The Poems of Horace consisting of Odes, Satyres, and Epistles
Rendred in English verse by several persons
‘A Paraphrase upon the first Ode by S. W. Esq To MECOENAS‘
ETYMOLOGY
? from fusty (having an unpleasant or stuffy smell), + lug (something heavy and clumsy), in the sense of something heavy or slow
EXAMPLE
“… Whereupon the richest Babylonians intending to marry, buy the fairest and most beautifull virgins in the company, one out-bidding another in the bargain. The country swains contenting themselues though they haue not the fairest, take the woodden-fac’d wenches, and the ill-fauourd-foule-fustilugs for a small summe, …”
From: A World of Wonders,
Or an Introduction to a Treatise Touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne Wonders.
By Henri Estienne
Translated by R.C., 1607
ETYMOLOGY
from flatter (vb.) + cap
EXAMPLE
“… He’s struggling to learn a lot of new things, but I also think he’s trying to do whatever he can to get on with the men.
I’ve seen him behaving like a flattercap, all yes sir, no sir, with a seaman named Brian Blount. …”
From: Trouble on the Voyage : The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of the Henrietta Maria
By Bob Barton, 2010
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin festivus (festive), from festum (a feast) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… But goe on boldly, Frestons charmes must end,
See here, a Disinchanter is thy friend;
Who innocent black Art, hath round thee writ
A magick circle of Festivous Wit;
Which will secure thy Fame against that Prime,
And lasting monster, all devouring Time. …”
From: John Speed in Edmund Gayton’s Pleasant Notes Upon Don Quixot, 1654
ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
EXAMPLE
“… If people felt but indifferently well, they said they were frobly-mobly; if they had swollen faces, they spoke of boun muns; if they were ready to faint, they said coath. …”
From: All The Year Round:
A Weekly Journal
Conducted by Charles Dickens, Jun.
Volume IV. From June 4, to November 26, 1870
‘In the Provinces ‘
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ferinus, from fera (wild beast)
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1)
“… Secondly there are brutish and unnaturall Desires, which the Philosopher calleth ferine and inhumane, instancing in those barbarous Countries, where they use to eat mens flesh and raw meat; and in the Woman who ripped up Women with childe that shee might eat their young ones: …”
From: A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man
By Edward Reynolds, 1640
also FULGROUS
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fulgur (lightning, a flash of lightning) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… and, iust at thinstant, all the canons plaien
frome towne to Campe, from Camp to towne againe,
in suche ann horrid noise, and flaminge light,
as if noone daie weare wedded to midd night:
or as if th’ pitchie clowdes of fulgrous heavn
had taen their In vp, neath the spheres seaven. …”
From: John Lane’s Continuation of Chaucer’s ‘Squire’s Tale’
By John Lane, 1616
PRONUNCIATION
FUL-gyuh-ruhss
ETYMOLOGY
from fusty (adj.)
EXAMPLE
“…There is a fashion in these things, which the Doctor seems to have forgot. But what shall we say of his fusty-rusty remarks upon Henry and Emma? I agree with him, that morally considered both the knight and his lady, are bad characters, and that each exhibits an example which ought not to be followed. …”
From: The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper
By William Hayley, Volume III, 1804
Letter XLVII. To the Rev. William Unwin, January, 5, 1782
ETYMOLOGY
from fore- (prefix) + mother, after forefather
EXAMPLE
“…Finallie the admirable humilitie, and inuincible patience and constancie in all aduersities and persecution euen to the death and martyrdome, of Iepthas daughter, Susanna, the mother of the seuen brethren, and women of the Machabites, and manie other: that looking in this glasse of the holie liues of their foremothers, they may christianlie conforme and adorne themselues after their good examples, and become for their rare vertues verie beautifull spouses in the fight of their spirituall bridegroome Iesus Christ: to whom, as the kings daughters, they may appeere all glorious within, …”
From: The Monument of Matrones Conteining Seuen Seuerall Lamps of Virginitie, or Distinct Ttreatises
Compiled by Thomas Bentley, 1582
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