ETYMOLOGY
from flap (to move up and down) + sauce (n.)
EXAMPLE
“…hath nowe brought (to howse) nowe hathe this glutton. i. this flappe sawce (the thyng) that he may plentuously swallowe downe hole…”
From: Gulielmus Gnapheus’ Comedye of Acolastus
Translated by John Palsgrave, 1540
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin dicax, dicaci-(talking sharply) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…Giovanni (or Lanciotto) deputes his more blandishing and dicacious brother to be his proxy in the marriage ceremonies; and afterwards, as the morning breaks, when the susceptible lady actually discovers her husband to be a wise, stern, moral man…”
From: The North American Magazine
Volume 4, 1834
Francesca Da Rimini
A Tragedy by Silvio Pellico
ETYMOLOGY
from shiksa (in Jewish speech, a gentile girl)
EXAMPLE
“…The Parson is on the highfly in a fantail banger and a milky mill tog. He got the cant of togs from a shickster whose husband’s in a bone-box. He’ll gammon the swells. He touched one for an alderman the first ten minutes…”
From: The Sydney Slang Dictionary, 1880
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin pacabilis (placable),
from pacare (to appease, pacify) + -bilis (-ble)
EXAMPLE
“…Divil a worse, sir, yet not more now than ever. – Time immemorial, – wasn’t it always so? a house burned here, and a pacable tinant carded there; one villain murthering another, for teeking land over his head…”
From: Dramatic Scenes from Real Life
Manor Sackville
by Lady Sydney Morgan, 1833
ETYMOLOGY
from Manx quaaltagh, qualtagh (the first person one meets after leaving the house, the first person one meets on New Year’s Day, literally ‘someone who meets or is met’),
from quaail (meeting, also action of meeting) + -agh, suffix expressing belonging, with insertion of -t-, perhaps by association with an unattested reflex of Early Irish comaltae (foster-brother, companion)
EXAMPLE
“…Again we assemble, a merry New Year,
To wish to each one of the family here,
Whether man, woman, or girl or boy,
That long life and happiness all may enjoy.
May they of potatoes and herrings have plenty,
With butter and cheese, and each other dainty,
And may their sleep never, by night or by day,
Disturbed be by even the tooth of a flea,
Until at the Quaaltagh again we appear
To wish you, as now, all a happy New Year!…”
From: An historical and statistical account of the Isle of Man
– Joseph Train, 1845
Note: A company of young lads or men generally went in old times on what they termed the Qualtagh, at Christmas or New Year’s Day, to the houses of their more wealthy neighbours; some one of the company repeating in an audible voice the following rhyme:
“Ollick ghennal erriu as blein feer vie;
Seihll as slaynt da’n slane lught thie
Bea as gennallys eu bio ry cheilley,
Shee as graih eddyr mraane as deiney
Cooid as cowryn, stock as stoyr.
Palchey phuddase, as skaddan dy-liooar;
Arran as caashey, eeym as roayrt ;
Baase, myr lugh, ayns uhllin ny soalt;
Cadley sauchey tra vees shiu ny lhie,
As feeackle y jargan, nagh bee dy mie.”
‘When this was repeated they were then invited in to partake of the best that the house could afford. (See example above for a translation.)
From: Dictionary of the Manks language, with the corresponding words or explanations in English, interspersed with many Gaelic proverbs
– Archibald Cregeen, 1835
ETYMOLOGY
from straddle (with the legs astride)
EXAMPLE
“…If he even seen a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. …”
From: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
By S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain), 1867
ETYMOLOGY
– from onycho- (relating to the nails) + –phagist (denoting people or animals who eat a particular food)
EXAMPLE
“…My eldest daughter had finished her Latin lessons, and my son had finished his Greek; and I was sitting at my desk, pen in hand and in mouth at the same time, (a substitute for biting the nails which I recommend to all onygophagists)…”
From: The Doctor &c.
By Robert Southey, 1834
“The Utility of Pockets. A Compliment Properly Received”
also Scottish and dialect form ROW-DE-DOW
ETYMOLOGY
– originally a variant of row dow dow ( a series of sounds as produced by beating a drum)
– later possibly influenced by rowdy dowdy (characterized by noisy roughness)
EXAMPLE
“…There has been a terrible rowdydow in the operatic green-room…”
From: Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil
By Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1845
ETYMOLOGY
from marine (adj.) + –orama, after panorama
EXAMPLE
“…the sea fell bravely upon the the reef with a low and soothing moan; a passion-vine that half veiled the tranquil marinorama bathed its splendid blossoms in the afterglow…”
From: South-sea Idyls
– Charles Warren Stoddard, 1873
ETYMOLOGY
– ? from bumfuddled,
? from bamboozle
EXAMPLE
“…Well, father, I thought he’d a fainted too, he was so struck up all of a heap, he was completely bung fungered; dear, dear, said he, I didn’t think it would come to pass so soon, but I knew it would come; I foretold it…”
From: The Clockmaker
or The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick,
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1836
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