ETYMOLOGY
from sniffle (vb.) + -er
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Gin this be courting, well I wat ’tis clear,
I gat na sik a teazle this seven year :
Sae ye maun gee your answer now perqueer,
I maunna ilka day be coming here,
To get sic sniflers ; courting’s nae a jest.
Another day like this’ll be my priest.’ …”
From: Helenore: Or the Fortunate Shepherdess, a Pastoral Tale
By Alexander Ross, 1768
ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin
EXAMPLE
“… I squarkyn, I burne the utter part of a thyng agaynst the fyer, or roste mete unkyndly, je ars …”
From: Lesclarcissement de la langue Francoyse
By John Palsgrave, 1530
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin sudat-, past participial stem of sudare (to sweat)
EXAMPLE
“… Take five Wallenuttes with their shelles, glowe them in the fyere then proiecte them in a gobblet with oulde wine, cover the same least the vigor therof exhalate. Drincke then the Wine as warm as you may, & then rest theron, and cause yourselfe to be well deckede, because you might sudate, and it will helpe. …”
From: The Boock of Physicke
By Oswald Gaebelkhover
Translated by A.M., 1599
ETYMOLOGY
possibly from Old French estoutoier, estoteier (to fall into disorder)
EXAMPLE
“… Þo cried þat freoly foode:
“Whi spille ȝe innocens bloode?”
And alle þei stoteyd and stoode,
Þis ferlys to frayne. …”
From: The Pistill of Susan – a Middle English adaptation of the Old Testament Apocryphal book The History of Susanna, a1400
ETYMOLOGY
from Old English smicer (possessing charm and attractive; beautiful)
EXAMPLE 1 (for adj. 1)
“… Þatt wollde ben effninng wiþþ Godd
Abufenn alle shaffte,
Þurrh whatt he fell off heffne dun
Inntill niþ hellepine,
& warrþ till atell defell þær
Off shene & smikerr enngell. …”
From: The Ormulum (Burchfield transcript), c1175
EXAMPLE 2 (for vb. 1)
“…Humph. This will not pass; for, though I’m stuft in the head, yet I can blow my Nose as well as another to smell things out. No, no, I see I may make love long enough before you smicker at me. You may e’en keep your Portion, I shall find my Land in the old Place. …”
From: The Man’s the Master, a comedy
By Sir William D’Avenant, 1668
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scriptitation-, scriptitatio (act of writing down, act of writing or composing, that which is written, text) from scriptitat-, past participial stem of scriptitare (to be in the habit of writing, to write regular or repeated letters), (frequentative formation from scribere (to write))
EXAMPLE
“… There is something in this Amory’s manner of scriptitation which is..utterly void of all pretensions to the business of argument. …”
From: The Church of England Vindicated, 1779
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“… I scruggell with one to gette from hym, or by cause I wyll nat obey his correction …”
From: Lesclarcissement de la Langue Francoyse
By John Palsgrave, 1530
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps from shrow (shrew, a wicked or malignant person), after frowardly
EXAMPLE
“… Now have I most unmanfully fallen foul upon some
Woman, I’le warrant you, and wounded her
Reputation shrowardly: Oh drink, drink! thou
Art a vile enemy to the civillest sort of curteous
Ladies. …”
From: The Comical Revenge, or, Love in a Tub
By George Etherege, 1664
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin sævidicus; from sævus (fierce, furious) + dic- stem of dicere (to say, speak) + -al
EXAMPLE
“… Carolyn smiled and gave a crafty wink, “It means a filthy, slobbering person. That’s the way you left him wasn’t it? And I think we can assume he was quite sevidical in his comments about you, don’t you think? …”
From: Something to Crowe About
By E. W. Nickerson, 2013
ETYMOLOGY
from sit (vb.) + upon (prep.), after to sit upon
EXAMPLE
“… I need scarcely say that he kept a tiger, and that the tiger was a perfect model of a brute. He wore a sky-blue coat with silver buttons, a pink-striped waistcoat, green plush sit-upons, and flesh-coloured silks in-doors; out of doors the lower garments were exchanged for immaculate white doeskins, and topboots — virgin Woodstocks on his hands, and a glazed hat upon his head with forty-two yards of silver-thread upon it to loop up the brims to two silver buttons. …”
From: Peter Priggins, The College Scout
By Theodore Hook, 1841
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