ETYMOLOGY
from Scottish gundie (greedy, voracious) + guts
EXAMPLE
“…In short, these quarrels grew up to rooted aversions; they gave one another nick-names: she called him gundy-guts, and he called her lousy Peg, though the girl was a tight clever wench as any was, and through her pale looks you might discern spirit and vivacity, which made her not, indeed, a perfect beauty, but something that was agreeable…”
From: John Bull
By John Arbuthnot, 1712
ETYMOLOGY
from weed (n.) + -ling
EXAMPLE
“…PLANTING. MARCH 26.
This morning marked out the weedling-plants of a plantation, made by the late Sir William Harbord twenty-give to thirty years ago…”
From: The Rural Economy of Norfolk
By William Marshall, 1782
ETYMOLOGY
from im- + Latin potare (to drink)
EXAMPLE
“…I never drunk or saw any usquebah since I came into Ireland, though I have bin at many tables and civilly used in a sober way without impoting: if any thing material doth happen in my concerns, I will send you word…”
From: Life and Letters of George Berkeley
From ye Court of Ireland, October 6, [1721]
– Alexander Campbell Fraser
ETYMOLOGY
from idea + pot
EXAMPLE
“…Going t’other day to the bookseller’s with my idea-pot brim-full, and ready to run over, I stole up, as usual, into the Author’s Coenaculum. – This, by the bye, is an apartment at the top of BARRETT’s house in he High-Street…”
From: The Student
Or, The Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, Volume 2
The Adventures of a Goose-Quill, Oxford, March 2, 1751
ETYMOLOGY
from fandangs (fanciful adornments in personal attire, trinkets (Eng. dial.))
EXAMPLE
“…who though a little proud and finical, to be sure he will yaw a parcel of nonsense about jukes and lords, and them sort of fandangus trumpery, and puts a parcel of gibberish whims into the head of all the women he falls in with…”
From: The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors
– Agnes Maria Bennett, 1797
ETYMOLOGY
from somni- (combining form of Latin somnus sleep), + loquacious
EXAMPLE
My somniloquacious sister kept me awake so many nights that I finally wore earplugs.
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin laniāt-, participial stem of laniare (to tear)
EXAMPLE
“…Wail for the little partridges on porringer and plate;
Cry for the ruin of the fries and stews well marinate:
Keen as I keen for loved, lost daughters of the Kata-grouse,
And omelette round the fair enbrowned fowls agglomerate:
O fire in heart of me for fish, those deux poissons I saw,
Bedded on new made scones and cakes in piles to laniate.
For thee, O vermicelli! aches my very maw! I hold
Without thee every taste and joy are clean annihilate
Those eggs have rolled their yellow eyes in torturing pains of fire
Ere served with hash and fritters hot, that delicatest cate….”
From: Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
– translated by Richard Francis Burton, 1885
ETYMOLOGY
from hen (a woman, a wife) + house
EXAMPLE
“…That was another one. She’s got two daughters. Hold me, big boy,; I’m heading for the hen-house…”
From: Sanctuary
By William Faulkner, 1931
also Scottish and dialect form ROW-DE-DOW
ETYMOLOGY
– originally a variant of row dow dow ( a series of sounds as produced by beating a drum)
– later possibly influenced by rowdy dowdy (characterized by noisy roughness)
EXAMPLE
“…There has been a terrible rowdydow in the operatic green-room…”
From: Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil
By Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1845
ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin doctiloquus (learnedly-speaking)
EXAMPLE
“…Most prudent,
Most grave,
Most scientific Jordan,
the most religious admirer of,
Sir,
Your very high Doctiloquous Sapience…”
From: Posthumous Works of Frederic II, King of Prussia, Vol. IX,
Correspondence. Letters Between Frederic II and M. Jordan
Translated From the French By Thomas Holcroft, 1789
Letter LIV, From the King, The Camp of Molwitz, May 13, 1741
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