ETYMOLOGY
from Latin scortator, agent-noun from scortari (to associate with harlots) + -ory
EXAMPLE
“… Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love
After which Follow Pleasures of Insanity Concerning Scortatory Love …”
From: A Translation of “De Amore Conjugiali“
By Emanuel Swedenborg
Translated by Alfred Acton, 1794
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin effutitius, from Latin effutio (to chatter, prate)
EXAMPLE
“… No xenodochium allays
Radicate thirst with “Bass” or “Booth.”
Unaccendible paradigm!
Call not this effutitious prate;
‘Tis ecphonesis, though it seem
But babbling to balbucinate. …”
From: The Savage-Club Papers
Edited by Andrew Halliday, 1867
A Social Science Valentine, By Thomas Archer
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin luctisonus (from luctus (grief )+ son- root of sonus (sound)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“… Let me coacervate a few
Ambagious words amarulent,
Ludificatory, but true,
Ere I become so macilent,
That without voice to ululate
My lov’d one’s luctisonous name,
My honour I impignorate,
And raise a temulentive flame. …”
From: The Savage-Club Papers
Edited by Andrew Halliday, 1867
A Social Science Valentine, By Thomas Archer.
ETYMOLOGY
from Grimgribber, an imaginary estate subject of a legal discussion in the play Conscious Lovers (1722) by Sir Richard Steele, British essayist and dramatist
EXAMPLE
“… Mankind in general are not sufficiently aware that words without meaning, or of equivocal meaning, are the everlasting engines of fraud and injustice; and that the grimgribber of Westminster Hall is a more fertile, and a much more formidable, source of imposture than the abracadabra of magicians. …”
From: Epea pteroenta, or, The diversions of Purley
By John Horne Tooke, 1786
ETYMOLOGY
from bubbly (full of bubbles) + the Scots male forename Jock
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… there was the turkey, whom the poetical Scott calls the bubbly-jock, gobbling in the distance, with a melodious gurgle as of an oboe played softly; …”
From: With Harp and Crown, A Novel
By Walter Besant and James Rice, 1800
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin obstreperus (clamorous);
from obstrepere (to make a noise against, shout at, oppose noisily or troublesomely) + -ate
EXAMPLE
“… ——Get on with you, said the abbess.
——Wh – – – – – ysh——ysh——cried Margarita.
Sh – – – a——shu – u——shu – – u—sh – – aw——shaw’d the abbess.
——Whu—v—w—whew—w—w—whuv’d Margarita, pursing up her sweet lips betwixt a hoot and a whistle.
Thump—thump—thump—obstreperated the abbess of Andoüillets with the end of her gold-headed cane against the bottom of the calesh——
The old mule let a f—...”
From: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
By Laurence Sterne, 1765
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin liripipium, leropipium, (explained in glosses as ‘tippet of a hood’, ‘cord’, ‘shoe-lace’, and ‘inner sole-leather of shoes’);
no plausible etymology has been found; connection of the latter part with French pipe (pipe (n.)) is not unlikely;
the form loripipium, which suggests Latin lorum strap, is likely an etymologizing corruption
EXAMPLE (for n. 3)
“… I say againe, my horses:
Are ye so hot? have ye your private pilgrimages?
Must ye be Jumping-Jone? Ile wander with ye:
Ile jump ye, and Ile joggle ye: my horses;
And keep me this young Lirry-poope within dores,
I will discover, dame. …”
From: Comedies and Tragedies
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, 1647
The Pilgrim
ETYMOLOGY
fancifully from solemn (adj.), after melancholy
EXAMPLE
[Dr. John Beatty to Philip Fithian]
Philadelphia, December 18th, 1772
“… I rode that evening you left me as far as Cormans; being very Solemncholly and somewhat tired, I concluded to stay there all night; and very early next morning breakfasted at Gloucester and got into Philadelphia before Eleven of the clock …”
From: Journal and Letters
By Philip Vickers Fithian, 1900
ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated extension of prattle (to talk in a foolish, childish, or inconsequential way)
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“… they are poore honest folkes, and haue here an honest company at their mariage, now they lacke wyne, I pray you helpe, She was not long in bibble bable, with saying she wist not what, but sayth at one word, helpe for it is nede. She doth not, as our Papistes do, whiche prittle prattle a whole day uppon their Beades, saying our Ladyes Psalter. But she only sayth, they haue no wyne; helpe. etc. …”
From: Frutefull Sermons
A Sermon Preached by Hugh Latymer, a1552
ETYMOLOGY
from sniffle (vb.) + -er
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Gin this be courting, well I wat ’tis clear,
I gat na sik a teazle this seven year :
Sae ye maun gee your answer now perqueer,
I maunna ilka day be coming here,
To get sic sniflers ; courting’s nae a jest.
Another day like this’ll be my priest.’ …”
From: Helenore: Or the Fortunate Shepherdess, a Pastoral Tale
By Alexander Ross, 1768
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