ETYMOLOGY
– from pow, variant of poll (the top of the head) + fagged (extremely tired)
EXAMPLE
“…Ther’s some sort o’ rumption gooin on ‘ith country, no deawt, an’ wi’st be gettin lurked, or lawmt, or powfagged some road, so let’s turn back while us booan are whul…”
From: Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life
By Benjamin Brierley, 1862
ETYMOLOGY
from ppl. stem of Latin pernegāre (to deny altogether),
from per- + negāre (to deny)
EXAMPLE
(the below example is for the noun pernegation – absolute denial)
“…I and my Friends shall be allowed the full benefit of all the variations, interpretations, reservations, postvariations, tergiversations, excusations, contemporations, pernegations, alterations, illaqueations, extrications, devotions, mentimutations, rementimutations, distinctions, evasions, possessions, plenipotentialities and fedifractions…”
From: Discolliminium;
Or, A most obedient reply to a late book
By Nathaniel War
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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