ETYMOLOGY
– a jocular corruption of melancholy
EXAMPLE
“…The devil was a little colli-mollie, and would not come off…”
From: A Glossary, Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc.
By Robert Nares, 1822
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
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
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