ETYMOLOGY
formed by compounding, from loose
EXAMPLE
“…His dam was for certain some loose clackt bitch or other; and he is so far from being tongue tyed, that he walks quite cantipodes to the precept here, see and say nothing…”
From: Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs:
Or, A Dish of Traitorous Tyrants
By K.W., 1661
ETYMOLOGY
from lick (vb.) + spittle (a house or place for the reception of the indigent or diseased)
EXAMPLE
“…Yes – and to hear his lickspittles speak, you would think that a man of great and versatile talents was a miracle; whereas there are some thousands of them publicly acknowledged in England at this day…”
From: Noctes Ambrosianae (J. Wilson) in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine,
Volume XVIII, July-December, 1825
ETYMOLOGY
from Italian leggiadro (elegant, graceful) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Her Motions and her Gestures travers’d are
By thy attending thoughts, and ravish’d thou
Think’st silver Venus through her limpid sphere
Swims with less gagliardise, and knows not how
So well to justify her Stile, and prove
Her self the Queen of soft leggiadrous Love…”
From: Psyche, or, Loves Mysterie
By Joseph Beaumont, 1648
ETYMOLOGY
from lither (lazy, sluggish) + -back
EXAMPLE
“…let him be watchfull and able to abide labour, hee must be no litherbacke, vnapt, or slothfull fellow…”
From: Fiftie Godlie and Learned Sermons, Divided Into Five Decades
By Heinrich Bullinger, 1577
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin lachanopoles (seller of herbs) + -ist
EXAMPLE
On the way home from work, I stopped by the local lachanopolist for some fresh oregano and thyme to flavour the soup I was making for supper.
ETYMOLOGY
from the fancied resemblance of the face to the shape of a lantern
EXAMPLE
“…A lanthorn-jaw’d woman, with a hatchet face, sunk eyes, a hook nose, taper lips, leather cheeks, dark Gums, straggling teeth, and such a low forehead, that her hair serves instead of eyebrows…”
From: The Comical Works of Don Francisco de Quevedo
Translated by John Stevens, 1707
ETYMOLOGY
from the drunkard’s reeling
EXAMPLE
The lean-away wavered out of the local public house.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin luculentus, from luc-, lux (light)
EXAMPLE
“…Trie out the grape vnhurt, neither to ripe
Neither to sowre, as gemmys luculent,
Of soft and hard as goodly is to gripe…”
From: The Middle-English translation of Palladius De Re Rustica
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin librārius (concerned with books) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Garniston. Exactly, This is the illustration and the measure of what you rightly consider our progress in this matter. The acted Shakespearian drama, now attracts crowds of studious people.
Warnford. Or librarious people, at any rate. I don’t say it isn’t the same thing: only I prefer my own word…”
From: MacMillan’s Magazine
Vol. L, May 1884, to October
The Consolations of Pessimism: A Dialogue
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin lacrimābundus (weeping, in tears),
from lacrimāre (to shed tears) + -bundus
EXAMPLE
“…that I must soon inevitably succumb, unless you most charitably applicate the balsamic lenitives of complyance to your most agonized,
and lachrymabund slave,
TIMOTHY BLUNDERBUSS…”
From: The Adventures of Jerry Buck
By John Slade, 1754
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