ETYMOLOGY
from what (pronoun, adj., & adv.), after whereabout(s
EXAMPLE
“…I wish you were as much in intercourse with the Colonial Office as with the Treasury, for then you might know all of my goings on, and whatabouts and whereabouts from Henry Taylor…”
From: Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey
By Robert Southey, a1843
ETYMOLOGY
? for the first element ‘catter’ perhaps from Dutch kater (tomcat) + batter (to fight)
EXAMPLE
“…By Gemini ! you never heard such a catter- batter! The whole court-room stamping and laughing fit to split, and the ushers calling order, and the tipstaffs running, and his worship gobbling like a cailzie-cock…”
From: Blackwood’s Magazine
Volume 225, 1929
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin locupletare (to enrich, to make wealthy),
from locuples (rich, wealthy) + –ive
EXAMPLE
“…Veracious or mendacious, those distinctions are alike applicable to it; testimony self-regarding or extra-regarding: in both cases, servitive or disservitive: if disservitive, criminative or simply onerative: if servitive, exculpative, exonerative, or locupletative…”
From: Rationale of Judicial Evidence:
Specially Applied to English Practice
– Jeremy Bentham, 1827
ETYMOLOGY
from naughty + pack
EXAMPLE
“…Calle hir a naughtie packe: withe that one woorde thou haste taken all from hir, and haste lefte hir bare and foule…”
From: A very frutefull and pleasant boke called the instructio[n] of a Christen woma[n]
By Juan Luis Vives, a1530
(translated by Richard Hyrde)
ETYMOLOGY
from French gastronome, back-formation from gastronomie (gastronomy, art of delicate eating)
EXAMPLE
“…Whereas, such and so interesting were the subjects of discussion betwixt Chiffinch and the French cook, that, without heeding the rules of etiquette, they rode on together, amicably abreast, carrying on a conversation on the mysteries of the table, which the ancient Comus, or a modern gastronome, might have listened to with pleasure. It was therefore necessary to venture on them both at once…”
From: Peveril of the Peak
– Sir Walter Scott, 1823
ETYMOLOGY
– from Greek γαστρ(ο)-, γαστήρ (gaster – stomach) + θίλ-ος (filos – friend)
EXAMPLE
“…From the foregoing observations we must conclude that the glutton practises without any regard to theory; and we call him Gastrophile. The gormand unites theory with practice, and may be denominated Gastronomer…”
From: Tabella Cibaria.
The Bill of Fare:
A Latin Poem,
Implicitly translated and fully explained in copious and interesting notes, relating to the Pleasures of Gastronomy, and the Mysterious Art of Cookery,
Ange Denis M’Quin, 1820
ETYMOLOGY
– ? a cross between blib (a weak, watery portion, as of tea, etc.) and ribbons
EXAMPLE
“…Now, Jenny, min’, nae blibbans in the kail the day.”
From: Supplement to Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary, 1887
ETYMOLOGY
– from French accabler (to confound, to overwhelm)
EXAMPLE
“…Why you ‘olly cabobble me…”
(Note: ‘olly = wholly)
From: Suffolk Words and Phrases;
Or, An Attempt to Collect The Lingual Localisms of that County
By Edward Moor, 1823
ETYMOLOGY
– an alliterative formation from ? fag (vb. to fail from weariness, to falter) + fuff (see Dictionary of the Scots language)
EXAMPLE
“…The widow is nae fag-ma-fuff…”
From: Poems
Willie Wabster’s Wooing and Wedding
Dorothea Maria Ogilvy, 1868
ETYMOLOGY
– ? reduplication of ninny
EXAMPLE
“…Yes , do , my pretty little ninny nonny,
And when I’ve done , I’ll whip your brother Johnny…”
From: Visions of Taste. A Satire.
By David Douglas, 1823
Part I. Sect. II
Vision I, The School of Poetry
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