ETYMOLOGY
from Old Norse glupna (to be downcast);
a root of identical form appears in Old Frisian glûpa, Middle Low German glûpen (to lie in wait for), Dutch gluipen (to watch slily, to sneak), Old Swedish glupa (to gape, swallow), Swedish glupande, Danish glubende (ravenous, fierce);
whether there is any etymological connection is uncertain
ETYMOLOGY
from nose + hole
EXAMPLE
“…Whan a bodi is stinged of an Adder than shall the woūde be wasshed ther with and clowtes wet layd ther vpō I Cotton wet in the same water & put in the nose holes is good agaynst Polippus that is stynkinge flesshe in the nose…”
From: The vertuose boke of distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of herbes
By Hieronymus Brunschwig
Translated by Laurence Andrewe, 1527
ETYMOLOGY
possibly imitative (perhaps of the chattering of teeth)
EXAMPLE
“…Full gayly was that grete lorde . girde in the myddis,
A brighte belte of ble, . broudirde with fewles,
With drakes and with dukkes, . daderande tham semede,
For ferdnes of fawcons fete, . less fawked thay were…”
From: Winnere and Wastoure
(“Winner and Waster” is a Middle English poem written in alliterative verse around the middle of the 14th century)
ETYMOLOGY
from sleuth (sloth, laziness obs.) + -ful
EXAMPLE
“…And he þat hauys greet egℏen̛ ys enuyous & witℏ-outen shame, sleuthful, and vnobeyssant. He þat hauys lityƚƚ eghen̛, lyk to heuenly colour, or blake, ys of sharpe vnderstondynge, curteys, and leel…”
From: Secreta Secretorum,
(a treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range of topics, including statecraft, ethics, physiognomy, astrology, alchemy, magic, and medicine)
ETYMOLOGY
from Middle French (queint-) cointerelle feminine of cointerel (beau, fop), from cointe (quaint)
EXAMPLE
“…It folweth nouht that thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle that for swich cause j am fair I am foul old and slauery foule stinkinge and dungy…”
From: Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode,
from the French of G. de Guilleville, c1430
ETYMOLOGY
a humorous use of Latin recumbentibus, ablative plural of recumbens, present participle of recumbere (recumb – to lean, recline, rest)
EXAMPLE
“…Ector sone to him gan take,
He thoght him venge of that wrake;
Ector bare his sword on hye,—
For he hadde no spere him bye,—
He ȝaff the kyng Episcropus
Suche a recumbentibus,
He smot In-two bothe helme & mayle,
Coleret and the ventayle…”
From: The Laud Troy Book;
an anonymous Middle English poem dealing with the background and events of the Trojan War, dating from around 1400
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fācundia (eloquence) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Discrete and hardy and wonder vertuous,
And of speche ryght facundious.
And coud him wel in euery thinge demene,
But Menelay of stature was but meane…”
From: The Auncient Historie and Onely Trewe and Syncere Cronicle of the Warres Betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans
By John Lydgate, 1430
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin macilentus (lean),
from macies (leanness) + -lentus (-lent)
EXAMPLE
“…Þay þat haue strong vertuez, grete veynez, & brode habitude, not mych macillent, i. lene or megre…”
From: Grande Chirurgie,
Translated by Guy de Chauliac, a1425
ETYMOLOGY
from waker (unsleeping, watchful, vigilant obs.) + -ly
EXAMPLE
“…Sothely he, as a good herde, was ful wakkerly and besy vppon the kepynge of that litell flok, his byloued disciples…”
From: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ;
an adaptation/translation of Pseudo-Bonaventure’s Meditations on the Life of Christ into English
By Nicholas Love, c1400
ETYMOLOGY
from ever adv.. + living adj.
EXAMPLE
“… to gaine pardon of the sinne to Rosemond, pittie to distressed Cleopatra, and
everliving praise to her loving Delia…”
From: Shakespeare’s Centurie of Prayse
By Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Lucy Toulmin Smith, 1879
William Clarke, 1595
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