ETYMOLOGY
formed from Old English clibbor (sticky, adhesive);
related to Old English clifian (to cleave, adhere)
EXAMPLE
“… Which tother spying well, hotly pursues his poynt,
And each proffred resistance, chops off ioynt by ioynt,
Threatning, insisting, striking, wounding, reuelling,
Till meeke disarm’d stilnes proclaim’d his conquering:
Then clibbie ladder gainst his battered flanck hereares,
And vp it him, and he it vp, slow scaling beares. …”
From: A Herrings Tayle
By Richard Carew, 1598
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin liripipium, leropipium, (explained in glosses as ‘tippet of a hood’, ‘cord’, ‘shoe-lace’, and ‘inner sole-leather of shoes’);
no plausible etymology has been found; connection of the latter part with French pipe (pipe (n.)) is not unlikely;
the form loripipium, which suggests Latin lorum strap, is likely an etymologizing corruption
EXAMPLE (for n. 3)
“… I say againe, my horses:
Are ye so hot? have ye your private pilgrimages?
Must ye be Jumping-Jone? Ile wander with ye:
Ile jump ye, and Ile joggle ye: my horses;
And keep me this young Lirry-poope within dores,
I will discover, dame. …”
From: Comedies and Tragedies
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 1647
The Pilgrim
ETYMOLOGY
an earlier form of hiccup, another being hickock, both apparently with a diminutive formative -et, -ock
EXAMPLE
“… And it is good to caste cold water in the face of him that hath the hicket, and to threaten him, and so put him in feare, and to anger hym, or els to prouoke hym to heauynesse, for by these thinges the naturall heat is reuoked and fortified within, and causeth the hicket to cease. …”
From: A new booke entyteled The Regiment of Lyfe: with a syngular Treatise of the pestilence
By Jean Goeurot
Translated by Thomas Phaer, 1544
ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated extension of prattle (to talk in a foolish, childish, or inconsequential way)
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“… they are poore honest folkes, and haue here an honest company at their mariage, now they lacke wyne, I pray you helpe, She was not long in bibble bable, with saying she wist not what, but sayth at one word, helpe for it is nede. She doth not, as our Papistes do, whiche prittle prattle a whole day uppon their Beades, saying our Ladyes Psalter. But she only sayth, they haue no wyne; helpe. etc. …”
From: Frutefull Sermons
A Sermon Preached by Hugh Latymer, a1552
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin coinquinat- participial stem of coinquinare (to defile all over),
from co- (together) + inquinare (to defile)
EXAMPLE
“... For the wele publyke
Of preesthode in this case
And alwayes to chase
Suche maner of sysmatykes
And halfe-heretykes
That wolde intoxicate
That wolde conquinate
That wolde contemminate
And that wolde vyolate
And that wolde derogate
And that wolde abrogate
The churche hygh estates…”
From: Colyn Cloute
By John Skelton, a1529
ETYMOLOGY
from passant (passing by or along, going, proceeding; travelling, journeying)
EXAMPLE
“… Thus passed they their passance, and wore out the wéerie way with these pleasant discourses, & prettie posies, where after their tedious toyle, they came to their Inne, where Phemocles coulde neither eate meate for ioy, nor sléepe in his bedde for the pleasure he cōceiued of his trauell. ..”
From: Narbonus The Laberynth of Libertie
By Austin Saker, 1580
ETYMOLOGY
from glum + -y
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1)
“… yet it can not be denyed, but that such casuall blastes may happen, as are most too bee feared, when the wether waxeth darke and glummy. …”
From: The Triall of Truth, wherein are discovered three greate enemies vnto mankind
By Edward Knight, 1580
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
from taste (n.) + -some
EXAMPLE
“… Laugh not at me, Herr Norton, ‘the good digestion waits on appetite, and health on both.’ Ate I never anything more tastesome, — say you not so?” said fraulein amiably. …”
From: A Georgian Bungalow
by Frances Courtenay Baylor, 1900
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