Category: Word of the Day – F

ETYMOLOGY
apparently a random formation, possibly influenced by doodle (n.) and perhaps also fopdoodle (n.)

EXAMPLE
“…But to look for such things from a revengful mind, is as unlikely as to make the bristly skin of a Hedghog smooth. And when all the Stuff in the Letters are scann’d, what Fadoodles are brought to light?…”

From: Scrinia Reserata a Memorial Offer’d to the Great Deservings of John Williams
By John Hacket, 1693

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin famigerare; formed on fama (a being much talked about, report) + gerere (to carry)

EXAMPLE
“…Renowned Sir, I made bold to beautify and embellish this worthless contemned work I am upon, with the oriental lustre of your eminent and deservedly most famigerous name: for which presumption I intended to crave your pardon, and behold! I am prevented, not with your absolution only, but with a grateful acceptance…”

From: The Whole Works of the Rev. John Lightfoot
Edited by the Rev. John Rogers Pitman, Volume XIII. 1824
Letters to and from Doctor Lightfoot. Letter XXVII.

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin femina (woman, feminine) + -ary

ETYMOLOGY
from fucation (a painting the face; hence, the giving of a false semblance or appearance, counterfeiting), (from Latin fucatus, pa. pple. of fucare (to paint, rouge)) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…but then the condition must be possible in his power to whom ’tis made, and the perfor∣mance according to the promisers Wil or liking; els it can∣not be candid or current. For to offer a courtesy under impossible condition, is frivolous or fucatious: as if one should offer mony to a blind Man on condition he wil tel what coin ’tis; which is al one as to deny an alms: nay in som sort wors, sith ’tis a denial with delusion and derision, or a meer mockery…”

From: Theoremata Theologica: Theological Treatises.
Octo theses theologicæ: Eight theses of divinity
By Robert Vilvain, 1654

ETYMOLOGY
from facund (eloquent) + -ate

EXAMPLE
To facundate your writing , you need to understand the subtleties and nuances of language.

ETYMOLOGY
from flesh (n.) + -ful

EXAMPLE
“…He looked like one of those burly Flemings that Rembrandt would sometimes paint, with his orange moustache and imperial, his solid fleshful face, and his big, chubby hands, on whose knuckles were little tufts of tawny hair…”

From: Loaded Dice: A Novel
By Edgar Fawcett, 1891

ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin;
perhaps from the Teutonic root flap and Old French frapillier (to be indignant, murmur)

EXAMPLE
“…Elixir vitae, and the precious Stone,
You know as well as how to make an Apple;
If’te come to the workinge then let you alone,
You know the coullers black brown bay and dapple,
Controwle you once then you begin to fraple.
Swearing and saying, what is fellow is this?
Yet still you worke but ever worke amisse…”

From: Sir Edward Kelle’s Worke,
In Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Brittanicum, 1652

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin falsiloquus (from falsus (false) + loqui (to speak)) + -ence

EXAMPLE
“…And that their Mutual Forces Join’d,
Harnass’d with Wit so much refin’d;
And so adorn’d instead of Sense,
With Trappings of Falsiloquence,
Might draw misjudging Fools to be,
In Love with their Sincerity;…”

From: The Fifth and last Part of Vulgus Britannicus
By Edward Ward, 1710

ETYMOLOGY
from frost + brained

EXAMPLE
“…MARTIANUS: Madam, we all have so importund him
Laying unto his judgement every thing
That might attract his sences to the crowne;
But he, frost-braind, will not be obtaind
To take upon him this Realmes government…”

From: No-Body and Some-Body, 1606
“Printed for John Trundle, and are to be sold
at his shop in Barbican, at the signe of No-body.”

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fracidus, from frac-, frax (lees of oil)

EXAMPLE
“…Natures recreation, which she out of the fracid ferment of putrifying Bodies doth form…”

From: The Reformed Common-wealth of Bees,
presented in several letters and observations to Samuel Hartlib, 1655