ETYMOLOGY
from Latin lacrimābundus (weeping, in tears),
from lacrimāre (to shed tears) + -bundus
EXAMPLE
“…that I must soon inevitably succumb, unless you most charitably applicate the balsamic lenitives of complyance to your most agonized,
and lachrymabund slave,
TIMOTHY BLUNDERBUSS…”
From: The Adventures of Jerry Buck
By John Slade, 1754
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin fluctisonus; fluctus (wave) + sonus (sound)
EXAMPLE
“…Flash! White raw human waves make a fluctisonous roar!…”
From: G Day, Please God, Get Me Off the Hook
By Neil Baker, 2010
ETYMOLOGY
probably from Angloromani (English Romani) mónoshi (woman, wife),
from Romani månuš (man) + -ī (feminine suffix)
EXAMPLE
“…I was standing near the prosecutor’s shew-glass, talking to a young man; the prisoner and another came to the glass, where I saw the medal lying: I saw them point at it; the other said, it would just do for him, and bid the prisoner look who was in the shop; he answered there was a Monisher in the shop; I suppose a cant word for a woman: Mrs. Storey was there: they went in; then I went into the house where I live; they came out in about three or four minutes: I went after them to the corner, and saw them running along Leicester-fields as fast as they could: I came back, and asked Mrs. Storey whether that medal was gold? she said it was she looked, and it was gone…”
From: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court
18th September, 1765
ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
EXAMPLE
“…Thro’ glaury holes, an’ dybs, nae mair
Ye’ll ward my pettles frae the lair,
Nor skinkle jet-black, here an’ there,
Wi’ white-thread hose;
Whan I gang to a kintry Fair,
To mak’ a sprose…”
From: Miscellaneous Poems, Songs, &c.,
Partly in the Scottish Dialect
By Ebenezer Picken, 1788
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dēsidiōsus (slothful)
EXAMPLE
“…In my travels through the various counties of England, I have marked the lack of feracity, arising from the lower orders becoming desidiose. …”
From: Langreath: A Tale
By Mrs. Eliza Nathan, 1727
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
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