ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin pauci- (comb. form. of Latin paucus few, little)
+ -loquent (speaking)
EXAMPLE
“…There was a sharp lawyer, one P-,
Whose thoughts never got through his still lips;
And all he would say was “ah!” “h’m!” “oh!” and “ay
This pauciloquent person named P- …”
From: Ye Book of Copperheads
Checker-Boarders and Keystoners
Charles Godfrey Leland, 1863
ETYMOLOGY
– from ancient Greek ϕιλόκαλος (loving the beautiful);
from ϕιλο- (philo-) + καλός (beautiful) + –ist (suffix)
EXAMPLE
“…This poor, vindictive, solitary, and powerful creature, was a philocalist: he had a singular love of flowers and of beautiful women.”
From: Horae Subsecivae
Locke and Sydenham, with other occasional papers
By John Brown · 1858
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin praestigiatorius from praestigiat– , past participial stem of praestigiare prestigiate (vb.) to deceive by illusion as if by magic
+ Latin –ōrius –ory
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1588 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…or finally of any their other colourable glosses, & hypocriticall subornations, in some like prestigiatory, and sophisticall veine?…”
From: A Discoursiue Probleme Concerning Prophesies
– John Harvey
ETYMOLOGY
from pebble (n.) + beached (adj.)
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1890 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence….”
From: A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker’s Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology
– Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland
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