ETYMOLOGY
from Latin loco, ablative of locus (the place in which something is situated or occurs) + move
EXAMPLE
“…A Journey in a Postchaise
To his Brother
Passenham, July 16, 1792
Dear Brother, – It is high time you should know something about us and our locomotions. To-morrow morning, at six of the clock, we begin to loco-move towards Bitteswell…”
From: Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman of the Eighteenth Century
By Thomas Twining (letter)
ETYMOLOGY
from slap (to lap → Eng. dial.) + sauce
EXAMPLE
“…At dinner and supper the table doth craue
good fellowly neighbour good manner to haue.
Aduise thee well therefore, ere tongue be too free,
or slapsauce be noted too saucie to bee…”
From: Points of Huswifrie
In Fiue Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry
By Thomas Tusser, 1573
ETYMOLOGY
from vagary (from Latin vagari (to wander)) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Thus life’s vagarious tenure passes on! And thus, the scenic vision glows with change! …”
From: Tour in Wales
By R.P., 1798
PRONUNCIATION
vuh-GAIR-ee-uhss
ETYMOLOGY
from ebriety (a being intoxicated, drunkenness) + ‑ate
EXAMPLE
“…But what we suppose conduces most to this seeming Magnanimity, is some things their Priests give them before, of an ebrietating Quality, which intoxicates their Spirits, and renders them insensible of what they are going to endure…”
From: The British Apollo, or, Curious Amusements for the Ingenious
May, 1711
ETYMOLOGY
variant of ident (diligent, persistent), Scottish form of ithand (assiduous, diligent, busy)
EXAMPLE
“…For his idand and contynuall gud serwice yerly to be done at his gudlie power at the sycht of the mastyr of werk for the tyme…”
From: Records of the Royal Burgh of Stirling
ETYMOLOGY
for n. 1. – a variant of pottinger
for n. 2, 3, 4 – from podge (anything short or thick) + ‑er
EXAMPLE
“…He cannot deal the knock-me-down blows of Old Brough, and if you watch your opportunity you may give him a podger. I am seldom in a cause of any consequence before him without getting into some squabble with him…”
From: Life of John, Lord Campbell, 1881,
Letter dated 9 March, 1816
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tætricus, tētricus (forbidding, harsh, gloomy),
formed on tæter (foul)
EXAMPLE
“…Some so tetricous, so cross-grained, and of so corrupt a taste. …”
(from the translation of J. F. de Isla, History Friar Gerund, but replacing the original form ‘tetrical‘ with ‘tetricous‘)
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin micare (to shine, sparkle, dart, move swiftly) + -acious
PRONUNCIATION
migh-KAY-shuhss
EXAMPLE
“…Others little inferior in splendour followed in procession; and what added much to their gorgeous appearance was, that as the oars were lifted, the water was perfectly micacious, and they appeared to glide over a sea of liquid gold…”
From: Constantinople Ancient and Modern:
With Excursions to the Shores and Islands of the Archipelago and to the Troad
By James Dallaway, 1797
ETYMOLOGY
from hum (a piece of humbug, an imposition, a hoax) + dudgeon (a feeling of anger, resentment, offense)
EXAMPLE (for n. 1)
“…”Hout tout, man – I would never be making a hum-dudgeon about a scart on the pow – but we’ll be in Scotland in five minutes now, and ye maun gang up to Charlies-hope wi’ me, that’s a clear case…”
From: Guy Mannering
By Walter Scott, 1815
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ruricola (a person who tills the land, husbandman, country dweller, rustic)
(from ruri-, combining form of rur-, rus (country) + -cola) + -ist
EXAMPLE
“…His hood was half blue and half green, and, over his left ear, was set off with an artificial rose. His appearance did not bespeak the ruricolist, and Dick, who at once detected this, set him down for a burgess of London…”
From: The Life and Times of Dick Whittington
An Historical Romance.
By Richard Whittington, 1841
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