ETYMOLOGY
from Latin novercalis (characteristic of a stepmother),
from noverca stepmother + -ālis (-al)
EXAMPLE
“…But Fortune that lends her smiles as Exctors do mony, to undoe the Debtor, soone cald for the Principall and Interest from this Prince, to whom she was meerly Novercall, and he might well call her with the expert Heros …”
From: The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third
By Sir George Buck, 1646
ETYMOLOGY
from hog + grubber (a person who gets wealth by sordid or contemptible methods)
EXAMPLE
“…The next that in our little Ease,
Came to be bit with Lice and Fleas,
Was a spruce Knave, like none of these, But sober,
As the Strand May-pole, – he did go,
In russe, – His thumb th’row ring, did show
A Gentleman seal’d, – for he was no Hog-grubber:
It was a Petty-fogging Varlet,
Whose back worse freez, but burn no scarlet,
And was tane napping with his Harlot, At noddy: …”
From: The Counter-Scuffle
Whereunto is added, the Counter-Ratt
By Robert Speed, 1626
ETYMOLOGY
from spill (to lose waste in a wasteful or accidental manner) + good
EXAMPLE
She was by no means a spill-good, but somehow all their money disappeared anyway.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pedisequus (following on foot, a foot-follower),
from pedi- (foot) + -sequus (following), sequī (to follow)
EXAMPLE
“…not onely melancholical and contumacious ones, but viscid and pituitous also, which sometimes put on the habit of Melancholly, and some adust bilious humours: and therefore we adde Rhabarb and Turbith, that we may with the Melancholical Captain-humour, educe the Pituitous, his companion inseparable, and also the Bilious, which is pedissequous.
And because this Medicament most respects melancholy, we have selected black Hellebore for this black humour; rejecting the white, as more convenient for Phlegm…”
From: A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick
By Jean de Renou
Translated by Richard Tomlinson, 1657
The Apothecaries Shop: Of Liquid Electuaries
ETYMOLOGY
from gad (used to express strong feeling) + zooks (origin unknown)
EXAMPLE
“…Buz. Ile first take tother cup, and then out with’t altogether—And now it comes—If my Mistress do bring him home a bastard, she’s but even with him.
Nat. He has one I warrant. Has he cadzooks?…”
From: The English Moor or the Mock-Marriage,
in Five Nevv Playes, viz. The English Moor. The Love-sick Court. Covent Garden Eeeded. The New Academy. The Queen and Concubine,
By Richard Brome, 1659
ETYMOLOGY
from sarcasm + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Like th’ Hebrew-calf, and down before it
The Saints fell prostrate, to adore it.
So say the Wicked—and will you
Make that Sarcasmous Scandal true.
By running after Dogs and Bears,
Beasts more unclean than Calves or Steers?…”
From: Hudibras: in three parts, the first part
By Samuel Butler, 1663
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin veriloquus (speaking truly)
EXAMPLE
“…Those ungrateful disingenuous Galenists (who always resisting the truth, set this Brazenface on work deceitfully to oppose Haematias.) contrived heretofore a scurrilous Pamphlet against a veriloquous treatise of mine, (namely A Chymical tryal of the Galenists) and injoyned Johnson their Pseudo-Chymist to patronize it…”
From: A Letter Sent to Mr. H. Stubbe,
By George Thomson, 1672
‘Animadversions on Mr. Stubbe’s Answer’
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin impendiosus, from impendium (outlay, expense),
from impendere (to impend, to spend, to expend)
EXAMPLE
He tried to get back into my good books by buying impendious gifts.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin morigeratus, past participial stem of morigerari (to to be obedient or compliant), from morigerus
EXAMPLE
“…Certaynely in the auncient tyme, whan thou were peopled with ryght and trewe Romayns, and not as thou arte nowe with bastarde chylderne, than the armies, that wente froo Rome, were as well disciplyned and morigerate, as the schooles of the philosophies, that were in Grece…”
From: The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius,
By Antonio de Guevara, 1546
ETYMOLOGY
from French badin (as a noun – a light-hearted person, fool, idiot; also used to denote the fool or clown in drama), (as an adjective – light-hearted, cheerful, foolish, silly),
from Old Occitan badin, adjective and noun, from badar (to gape), from Latin badare (to gape) + -in (-ine)
EXAMPLE
“…Such a Badeen ne’er came upon the Stage,
So droll, so monkey in his play and rage;
Sprawling upon his back, and pitching pyes,
Twirling his head, and flurring at the flies.
A thousand tricks and postures would he show,
Then rise so pleas’d both with himself and you,
That the amaz’d beholders could not say
Whether the bird was happier, or they…”
From: Poems by Sir W.T.
By William Temple, 1670
‘Upon My Lady Giffard’s Loory’
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