ETYMOLOGY
perhaps after Middle French, French petit-fils (grandson, grandchild)
EXAMPLE
“… is the transporting ȝoure littil son and my onelie child in this countrey. To the quhilk albeit I be never sa willing, I wald be glaid to have ȝoure advyse therein, as in all uther thingis tuiching him. I have born him…”
From: The Love Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
– Hugh Campbell, 1824
Letter written to the Countess of Lennox, July 10, 1570
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin maximus (greatest) + -ious
EXAMPLE
“…The pointment kept, and Skelton, seying the sumptuous coste, more pertaynyng for an emperoure or a maxymyous kynge, then for suche a man as he was (although cardynals wyll compare wyth kyngs)…”
From: Merie Tales of Skelton, 1567
ETYMOLOGY
from heart + -some
EXAMPLE
“…And ze defend the cruell Jesabell
Than Baallis Priestis will cal zow verray kynde
Now euerie Dowglas of ane hartsum mynde,
Thinke on dame Margaret sumtyme in the towre,
And of young Charles prudent of Ingyne…”
From: Heir Followis ane Ballat Declaring the Nobill and Gude Inclinatioun of Our King
– Robert Sempill, 1567
ETYMOLOGY
from joly, jolie (jolly) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Wantoun and blyith, and euer geuin to sport,
And efter drink desyrous of comfort:
Iocund with Ioy, and Iolyous to Iaip,
With mockis and mowis of nature as the Aip.
And he that hes the nature of the fyre,
Is euer hait, in crabitnes, and Ire…”
From: Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venus
– John Rolland, 1575
ETYMOLOGY
?? huddle is an obsolete word for a miserly old person
EXAMPLE
“…Yea, in the worde of one no more wealthy then hee was, (wealthy saide I? may I’le be sworne hee was a grande iurie man in respect of me,) those graybeard Huddle-duddles and crusty cum-twangs were strooke with stuch stinging remorse of their miserable Euclionisme and snudgery…”
From: Lenten Stuffe
– Thomas Nashe, 1599
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin
EXAMPLE
“…This Stymphalist is he that with fiue or sixe Tenements, and the retinue thereunto belonging, infectes the aire with stench, and poisons that parish, yea and twentie parishes off with the contagion of such carrion as lies there in their bumble baths, and stinke at both ends like filthie greene elder pipes. For him and them master, such Landlordes and such Tenants. Good master wish as I wish…”
From: Maroccus Extaticus.
Or, Bankes bay horse in a trance
A discourse set downe in a merry dialogue, betweene Bankes and his beast: anatomizing some abuses and bad trickes of this age.
– By Iohn Dando the wierdrawer of Hadley, and Harrie Runt, head ostler of Bosomes Inne, 1595
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin occīs-, past participial stem of occidere (to kill)
EXAMPLE
“…[ ] was vmquhile to vtheris done disprise
Witnes, Acteon quhome that je gart occise,
With his awin doggis quhair je him haistelie
Conuertit in ane Hart throw jour fantice…”
From: Ane treatise callit the court of Venus
– John Rolland, 1575
ETYMOLOGY
from hob (a generic name for a rustic, a clown) + lob (a country bumpkin, a clown)
EXAMPLE
“…By Phoebe to Delos, his natiue countrie seat, hastning.
Hee poincts a dawnsing, foorthwith the rustical hoblobs
Of Cretes, of Driopes, and paincted clowns Agathyrsi
Dooe fetch their gambalds hopping neere consecrat altars…”
From: Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Æneis tr. intoo English heroical verse
– translated by Richard Stanyhurst, 1582
ETYMOLOGY
from tickle + tongue
EXAMPLE
“…yet notwithstanding he was so crost in the nycke of thys determination, that his hystorie in mitching wyse wandred through sundry hands, and being therwithall in certaine places somewhat tyckle tongued (for M. Campion dyd learne it to speake) and in other places ouer spare, it twitled more tales out of schoole…”
From: Introduction to The firste (laste) volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande (Raphael Holinshed, 1577)
– Richard Stanyhurst
ETYMOLOGY
? from Friday being a day of fasting
EXAMPLE
“…without a sermon pareneticall for exhortation, that hee might seeke bethe where they were and were not, as Skoggin did the hare, and presse an army royall of arrand honest women, to scale the fortresse of modestie with friday faced scoulds, ere he coulde triump for halfe such a victory in twise so much space…”
From: Philotimus
– Brian Melbancke, 1583
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