Tag: 1700 – 1799

Word of the Day: MARITATED

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin marītātus pa. pple. of marītāre (to marry) + -ed

EXAMPLE
“…I am still an agamist, although nubile for several annuary epochs. I have had multitudinous allectations to enter into a maritated condition, but have as yet evitated all morsure at the proffers coming from your genus…”

From: Letters to Squire Pedant In the East, 
By Lorenzo Altisonant, an Emigrant to the West.
By Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, 1870
Amenityville, Occident, (Letter written July 4, 1844)
To Seignior Lorenzo Altisonant

Word of the Day: WHACKER

DEFINITIONS (cont’d)

n. 1. 1768 UK sl. – a term of address to a man
n. 2. 1823 – anything abnormally large of its kind; a big lie; a heavy blow
n. 3. 1827 Amer. dial. – a driver of animals; a drover; an ox or mule driver
n. 4. 1861 Eng. dial. – a shake; a shiver
n. 5. Bk1942 Amer. sl. – something excellent
n. 6. 1960s Aust. sl. – a fool
n. 7. 1980s US sl. – a masturbator
n. 8. 20C US sl. – a gadget, a thing
n. 9. 20C US sl. – the penis
vb. 1703 Eng. dial. – to tremble, to shake with cold, fear, etc.

ETYMOLOGY
from whack (vb.) + -er

EXAMPLE (for n.3)
“…A noisy train of long-horned, thin-bodied oxen, dragging trailed wagons piled high with freight from the railway terminus, comes round the corner, and stops to listen before unyoking for the night, the whacker’s long whip cracking like pistol-shots as he lashes his unwieldy beasts into position…”

From: Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
No. CCCLIX – April, 1880 – Vol. I.X.
La Villa Real De Santa Fe

Word of the Day: FAMELICOSE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin famēlicōsus, from fames (hunger)

EXAMPLE
“…We arrived there by 10:30 p.m. and were super hungry despite eating all the stuffed pranthas all the way. I guess all Punjabis are famelicose because no matter how much we eat, we can still manage to eat more if given something that is delicious…”

From: Unanswered Questions
Love is Lost When the Answers are Assumed,
Katie Khanna, 2016

Word of the Day: EXCEREBROSE

ETYMOLOGY
from ex- (prefix) + Latin cerebrum (brain) + -ose

EXAMPLE
“…It brands him at once as an excerebrose scallywag, an eviscerated elasmobranch, worthy of being hurled neck and crop along with Mendelssohn into the limbo of discredit desuetude…“

From: The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular,
Volume XXXVII, 1896

Word of the Day: RAUCID

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin raucus (adj.) hoarse, harsh, raucous + -id 

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1730 – see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
“…In Needy Thraldom, fearful, darkling lay,
Expected fond were the sweet-warbled Ode
Of vig’rous Stretch; when not th’ Elegiac Tone
Which on Maander’s Stream the raucid Swan,
At Fate’s Approach, was storied erst t’ emit,
The pining, heartless, wasted Pris’ner groans…”

From: Freedom; A Poem, Written in Time of Recess from the Rapacious Claws of Bailiffs, and Devouring Fangs of Goalers
To which is annexed The Author’s Case 
– Andrew Brice