ETYMOLOGY
from blunder, taken in sense of ‘blunderer’ + -kin
EXAMPLE
“…I vtterly despaire of them, or not so much despaire of them, as count them a paire of poore ideots, being not only but also two brothers, two blockheads, two blunderkins, hauing their braines stuft with nought but balder-dash, but that they are the verie botts & the glanders to the gentle Readers…”
From: Haue with you to Saffron-Walden; or, Gabriell Harueys Hunt is Vp
By Thomas Nashe, 1596
ETYMOLOGY
from discord + -ful
EXAMPLE
“…Thus as they marched all in close disguise,
Of fayned loue, they chaunst to ouertake
Two knights, that lincked rode in louely wise,
As if they secret counsels did partake;
And each not farre behinde him had his make,
To weete, two Ladies of most goodly hew,
That twixt themselues did gentle purpose make
Vnmindfull both of that discordfull crew,
The which with speedie pace did after them pursew…”
From: The Second Part of The Faerie Queene
By Edmund Spenser, 1596
ETYMOLOGY
from Euclionem, the name of a miser, the chief character in Plautus’ Aulularia + -ism
EXAMPLE
“…Yea in the worde of one no more wealthy then hee was, wealthy saide I, nay I’le befworne hee was a grande iurie man in respect of me, those graybeard Huddle-duddles and crusty cum-twangs, were strooke with such stinging remorse of their miserable Euclionisme and sundgery, that hee was not yet cold in his graue but they challenged him to be borne amongst them, and they and sixe citties more, entred a sharpe warre aboute it, euery one of them laying claime to him as their owne, and to this effect hath Bucchanan an Epigram….”
From: Lenten Stuffe
By Thomas Nashe, 1599
ETYMOLOGY
from gesture + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…vvhich hath learned to spoyle & deuour folk to make vvidovves, destroy their houses, & make their Cities desert. Some be as foyinge, gesturous, and counterfeicting of any thing by ymitacion as Apes. Some Forlyke, are suttle, wylie, deceiptfull, and crafty to entrappe and catche the innocent at aduauntage…”
From: The Touchstone of Complexions
By Levinus Lemnius
Translated by Thomas Newton, 1576
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin uxorius (from uxor (wife))
EXAMPLE
“…And gripe their wast within a narrow span:
Fond Caenis that would’dst wish to be a man;
Whose mannish Hus-wiues like their refuse state,
And make a drudge of their vxorius mate,
Who like a Cot-queene freezeth at the rocke,
Whiles his breach’t dame doth man the forren stock…”
From: Virgidemiarum. The three last bookes
By Joseph Hall, 1598
PRONUNCIATION
uk-SOR-ee-uhss
ETYMOLOGY
from slap (to lap → Eng. dial.) + sauce
EXAMPLE
“…At dinner and supper the table doth craue
good fellowly neighbour good manner to haue.
Aduise thee well therefore, ere tongue be too free,
or slapsauce be noted too saucie to bee…”
From: Points of Huswifrie
In Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry
By Thomas Tusser, 1573
ETYMOLOGY
from un- + fortunable (favoured by fortune, fortunate → obs.)
EXAMPLE
“…Is not the Realme of Scotland rich ynough to nourish and to bring hir vp? by God, this manner of doing of king Lisuard is so vnfortunable and so farre out of reason, that I had rather die a hudreth fold (if it were possible) than not to be reuenged: and already I haue sent to my father to prouide therefore…”
From: Amadis de Gaula
Translated out of French into English by Thomas Paynell, 1567
ETYMOLOGY
n. 1. a playful expansion of daffodilly. (from daffodil + -y);
n. 2: so called in Yorkshire from the slight similarity of the Greek name Daphne with Daffodil
EXAMPLE
“…Herbes, branchis & flowers for windowes & potts
• 1 Bayes, sowe or set in plants in Ianuarie.
• 2 Batchelers buttens,
• 3 Botles, blewe, red & tauney,
• 4 Collembines.
• 5 Campions.
• 6 Daffadondillies.
• 7 Eglantine, or swete bryer.
• 8 Fetherfewe.
• 9 Flower armour, sowe in Maye.
• 10 Flower deluce,
• 11 Flower gentil, whight & red.
• 12 Flower nyce.
• 13 Gelyflowers, red, whight & carnacions, set in Spring, & Heruest in potts, payles or tubs, or for sommer in bedds.
• 14 Holiokes, red, whight & carnacions.
• 15 Indian eye, sowe in Maye, or set in slips in March.
• 16 Lauender, of al sorts…”
From: Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry
By Thomas Tusser, 1573
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin eloquium (eloquence) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Eloquious hoarie beard father Nestor, you were one of them, and you M. Vlisses the prudent dwarfe of Pallas another, of whome it is Illiadizd that your very nose dropt sugar candie, and that your spittle was honye. Natalis Comes if he were aboue ground…”
From: Lenten Stuffe
By Thomas Nashe, 1599
ETYMOLOGY
adj. & adv.: from French par cœur (by heart, by memory, perfectly, exactly)
vb.: from Latin perquirere (to make diligent search for), formed on per- + quærere (to seek)
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“…Sweetly disposed soul (for so I hope)
Though most deluded by thy self, and Pope;
Perquire Zoographers, and none recite,
A Romane Pope turn’d willing Anchorite.
Now they so much abhor such doubtful ways,
They’ll not to Heaven go, without false ayes.…”
From: Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse
By Christopher Clobery, 1659
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