ETYMOLOGY
from fop (n.) + doodle (n.)
EXAMPLE
“…Quoth he, This scheme of th’ heavens set,
Discovers how in fight you met
At Kingston with a may-pole idol,
And that y’ were bang’d both back and side well;
And though you overcame the bear,
The dogs beat you at Brentford fair;
Where sturdy butchers broke your noddle,
And handled you like a fop-doodle…”
From: Hudibras: The Second Part
By Samuel Butler, 1664
ETYMOLOGY
from French jectigation (‘wagging, shrugging’ (Cotgrave)),
from medieval Latin jectigare, from jact-, ject-, ppl. stem of Latin jacere (to throw)
EXAMPLE
“…both Men and Women seemed to Prophetize and Vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the Head, shrugging of the Shoulders, and Jectigation of the whole Body, which they used then most punctually…”
From: The Third Book of the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel
By François Rabelais
Translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin type cognoscibilis (knowable), from cognscere
EXAMPLE
“…There remains nothing entire, nor cognoscible in Germany, but the Sea and the Mountains…”
From: Le Prince
By Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
Translated by H. Gresby, 1648
ETYMOLOGY
apparently a random formation, possibly influenced by doodle (n.) and perhaps also fopdoodle (n.)
EXAMPLE
“…But to look for such things from a revengful mind, is as unlikely as to make the bristly skin of a Hedghog smooth. And when all the Stuff in the Letters are scann’d, what Fadoodles are brought to light?…”
From: Scrinia Reserata a Memorial Offer’d to the Great Deservings of John Williams
By John Hacket, 1693
ETYMOLOGY
from the female forename Dowsabel (also Dowsabell, Dousabella);
probably from Anglo-Norman and Old French douce (quiet, sedate, prudent) + ‑abel (in the female forenames Amabel, Isabel, Mirabel);
perhaps originally used as the name of a character in a lost romance
EXAMPLE
“…With thinking on the booties, Dol., brought in
Daily, by their small parties. This deare houre,
A doughtie Don is taken, with my Dol.;
And thou maist make his ransome, what thou wilt,
My Dousabell: He shall be brought here, fetter’d
With my faire lookes, before he sees thee; and throwne
In a downe-bed, as darke as any dungeon…”
From: The Alchemist
By Ben Jonson, 1612
ETYMOLOGY
? from Old Norse slœ́ða (to drag, trail) (so Norwegian slöda; also, to work carelessly)
EXAMPLE
“…Again, the combination of labourers and Poor people may very much prejudice, besides their slothfull and sleathy slubbering of it, if not exceeding carefully overseen…”
From: The English Improver Improved Or the Survey of Husbandry Surveyed
By Walter Blith, 1652
ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain origin;
possibly from drug (n.) + ‑le
EXAMPLE
“…The Bunsellers or Cake-bakers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but (which was worse) did injure them most outragiously, calling them pratling gablers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangie rascals, shiteabed scoundrels, drunken roysters, slie knaves, drowsie loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubbardly lowts, cosening foxes, ruffian rogues, paultrie customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydons, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninnie lobcocks, scurvie sneaksbies, fondling fops, base lowns, sawcie coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing Braggards, noddie meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddi-pol-jolt-heads, jobernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, slutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnatsnappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninnie-hammer flycatchers, noddiepeak simpletons; Turdie gut, shitten shepherds, and other such like defamatory epithetes...”
From: The Works of the Famous Mr. Francis Rabelais
Translated by Thomas Urquhart, 1653
ETYMOLOGY
from bajulat-, participial stem of bajulare (to carry), from bajulus (porter);
BADGER – a person who buys corn and other commodities and carries them elsewhere to sell; an itinerant dealer who acts as a middleman between producer (farmer, fisherman, etc.) and consumer; a cadger, hawker, or huckster
EXAMPLE
“…Hence it is, that in the late Order for regulating the wages of Coach-men, at such a price a day and distance from London, Sussex alone was excepted, as wherein shorter way or better pay was allowed. Yet, the Gentry of this County well content themselves in the very badness of passage therein, as which secureth their provisions at reasonable prices; which, if mended, Higglers would mount, as bajulating them to London.…”
From: The History of the Worthies of England
By Thomas Fuller, 1662
ETYMOLOGY
from ppl. stem of Latin inambulare, from in- (in-) + ambulare (to walk)
EXAMPLE
He inambulated the pier from dawn to dusk hoping to find his great-grandfather’s missing pocket watch.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin olfact-, ppl. stem of olfacere (to smell)
EXAMPLE
“…The Indian is indeed light, but black and amare; the Syrian is flave, tuberous, to the gust acrimonious, to the olfact fragrant. The Arabians constitute onely two sorts thereof, the amare, and the sweet. And Clusius thinks there is but one kinde of Costus, and that it is onely called sweet, in reference to the more amare and acrimonious. Such a difference as this in sapour, we daily experience in Plants, which while fresh and new, are more sweet and suave; when inveterate, croded with worms, and corrupted, more amare, acrimonious, and insuave…”
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory
Of such Medicinal Materials as are requisite for Compositions made and kept in Apothecaries Shops
By J. de Renou
Translated by Richard Tomlinson, 1657
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