ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated from noddy (a fool, a simpleton)
EXAMPLE
“… Lastly it is no where to be shewed, that Christ gaue any speciall commaundement, that Peter should remooue his seat from Antioche to Rome. If this hoddy Noddy thinke otherwise, let him if he canne, bring foorth his proofes, and shew where this commaundement is to be séene. …”
From: A briefe replie to a certaine odious and slanderous libel, lately published by a seditious Iesuite,
By Matthew Sutcliffe, 1600
ETYMOLOGY
from Dutch hondsvot, German hundsfott (scoundrel, rascal), lit. cunnus canis
EXAMPLE
“… If the Violence of a hooping Cough can cauſe a Rupture , what may not one justly dread from such an Explosion of Wind and Vapour? But hold, Sirs! Methinks I shou’d know the Skream, I have heard something like it before now. O pox! It’s that Hounsfoot Tom Whigg, A Son of a—! He’ll skream to be heard from London to Geneva, when he’s no more hurt than I am this Minute. …”
From: A True and Faithful Account of the Last Distemper and Death of Tom Whigg, Esq., 1710
ETYMOLOGY
formed on French habiller (to dress), or English habiliment (array, attire, dress), after adjectives etymologically formed in -atory
EXAMPLE
“… The nether garments of this petit-maitre consisted of a pair of blue tight pantaloons, profusely braided, and terminating in Hessian boots, adorned with brass spurs of the most burnished resplendency; a black velvet waistcoat, studded with gold stars, was backed by a green frock coat, covered, notwithstanding the heat of the weather, with fur, and frogged and cordonné with the most lordly indifference, both as to taste and expense: a small French hat, which might not have been much too large for my lord of ——, was set jauntily in the centre of a system of long black curls, which my eye, long accustomed to penetrate the arcana of habilatory art, discovered at once to be a wig. A fierce black mustachio, very much curled, wandered lovingly from the upper lip towards the eyes, which had an unfortunate prepossession for eccentricity in their direction. …”
From: Pelham: Or, The Adventures of a Gentleman
By Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton, 1828
ETYMOLOGY
from hair + bush
EXAMPLE
“… His crisp locks frizeling, his temples prittelye stroaking.
Heer with al in trembling with speede wee ruffled his hearebush,
With water attempting thee flame too mortifye sacred.
But father Anchises, mounting his sight to the skyward,
Both the hands vplifting, hertly thus his orison vttred. …”
From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis
Translated intoo English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from hundred + legs
EXAMPLE
“… They have also lizards three or four feet in length, and in great numbers; and also creatures called centipedes, or hundred legs, very venomous and troublesome. …”
From: The Beauties of Nature and Art
Displayed in a Tour Through the World
Volume X, 1774
Chapter I. Of South America
Sect. II. Animals
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 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
from Latin hilarat- participial stem of hilarare, from hilarus, hilaris, (cheerful, gay)
EXAMPLE
They drank enough wine to hilarate, not intoxicate.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin hæsitationem, noun of action from hæsitare (to hesitate) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… he did not advance with his Army as near as, as he might have done, nor did endeavor to enforce others, nor to be enforced himself to fight, but rather went out of his direct way, which he had taken to come to Vienna, and kept for the most part in strong and commodious seats, as between the two Rivers of Sava and Drava; and if a powerful and vain glorious Prince, who professed that he had undertaken that War meerly out of a desire of glory would make use of haesitatious counsels, where the consequences were so great and so heavie; …”
From:
Politick Discourses written in Italian by Paolo Paruta, a noble Venetian, cavalier and procurator of St. Mark;
Translated by the Right Honorable Henry, Earl of Monmouth, 1657
ETYMOLOGY
an earlier form of hiccup, another being hickock, both apparently with a diminutive formative -et, -ock
EXAMPLE
“… And it is good to caste cold water in the face of him that hath the hicket, and to threaten him, and so put him in feare, and to anger hym, or els to prouoke hym to heauynesse, for by these thinges the naturall heat is reuoked and fortified within, and causeth the hicket to cease. …”
From: A new booke entyteled The Regiment of Lyfe: with a syngular Treatise of the pestilence
By Jean Goeurot
Translated by Thomas Phaer, 1544
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