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
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin delitigare (to scold to exhaustion; to dispute wholeheartedly)
EXAMPLE
“…Were our author to change sides (which fanatics oftenest do), we should in all likelihood find him delitigating just as copiously and as loudly against his present idol; perhaps somewhat after this fashion – “He has debauched his visual taste by the use of stimulant colours…”
From: The Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts
“Modern Painters: their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting”
By a Graduate of Oxford, February 10, 1844
ETYMOLOGY
from kill (vb.) + buck (the male of several animals)
EXAMPLE
“…Tharsalio. Out, you young hedge-sparrow; learn to tread
afore you be fledge!
[He kicks her out.]
Well, have you done now, lady?
Arsace.. O, my sweet kilbuck!
Tharsalio. You now, in your shallow pate, think this a
disgrace to me; such a disgrace as is a battered helmet
on a soldier’s head; it doubles his resolution. Say, shall
I use thee?
Arsace. Use me?…”
From: The Widdowes Teares
By George Chapman, 1612
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin deosculari (to kiss warmly or affectionately),
from de- (in the sense of down to the bottom) + osculari (to kiss)
EXAMPLE
The young couple deosculated, and vowed never to break up.
ETYMOLOGY
from heart + bound
EXAMPLE
“…When Strephon cursing his owne backwardnes
Came to hir back, and so with double warde
Emprison hir, who both them did possesse
As heart-bound slaues: and happy then embrace
Vertues proofe, fortunes victor, beauties place…”
From: The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.
By Sir Philip Sidney. a1586
ETYMOLOGY
from French cataglottisme (‘a kisse or kissing with the tongue’ (Cotgrave)),
from Greek καταγλώττισµα, (kataglottisma) -ισµός (‘a lascivious kiss’)
EXAMPLE
“…The kiss is not only an expression of feeling; it is a means of provoking it. Cataglottism is by no means confined to pigeons…”
From: Studies in the Psychology of Sex,
Volume 4: Sexual Selection In Man
Havelock Ellis, 1905
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