ETYMOLOGY
from Old Norse glupna (to be downcast);
a root of identical form appears in Old Frisian glûpa, Middle Low German glûpen (to lie in wait for), Dutch gluipen (to watch slily, to sneak), Old Swedish glupa (to gape, swallow), Swedish glupande, Danish glubende (ravenous, fierce);
whether there is any etymological connection is uncertain
ETYMOLOGY
irregularly from voliti-,
from French volition,
from medieval Latin volition-, volitio (noun of action),
from Latin volo (I wish, will) + -ent
EXAMPLE
“…I chose this ruin: I elected it
Of my will, not of service, What I do, I do volitient, not obedient,
And overtop thy crown with my despair…”
From: A Drama of Exile
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1844
ETYMOLOGY
from chatter + mag (a chatterbox)
EXAMPLE
“…Now then, stop that; we don’t want no such dal’d nonsense; we come here to work. Now then, you women, divide into twos, and begin at both ends, or we shan’t get any work done for your chattermagging…”
From: Stubble Farm;
Or, Three Generations of English Farmers
By Hubert A. Simmons, Vol. II, 1880
Chapter I. P. 14
ETYMOLOGY
from be- + puff
EXAMPLE
“…Doggeries never so gold-plated, Doggeries never so escutcheoned, Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-lighted, continue Doggeries, and must take the fate of such…”
From: Past and Present
By Thomas Carlyle, 1843
ETYMOLOGY
from Samson (in reference to his enormous strength) + -istic
EXAMPLE
“…The new Governor-General seemed to be impressed with the idea that all political officers, small and great, were in fault. Forthwith he commenced dealing out upon them the most ferocious and Samsonistic blows. The shower unfortunately fell, like Don Quixote’s strokes on a certain occasion, upon an innocent race of puppets…”
From: Dry Leaves from Young Egypt
Being a Glance at Sindh Before the Arrival of Sir Charles Napier,
By An Ex-Political (Edward Backhouse Eastwick), 1849
Chapter XII. A Flea
ETYMOLOGY
from nob (the head) + thatch (covering)
EXAMPLE
“…Sir, I have been three months in the House of Correction, and was discharged yesterday. Mr Chesterton’s “nick” is yet fearfully visible among my hair, whence a great paucity of nob-thatch…”
From: Littell’s Living Age
Volume 11, 1846
The Complaint of a Pickpocket; John Sheppard
ETYMOLOGY
after Mrs. Grundy, a character mentioned in the play Speed the Plough (1798) by Thomas Morton (1764?-1838), English playwright
EXAMPLE
“…Meantime there is some meaning in having a gentleman and a classic at the head of affairs, who may now and then direct the stream of public bounty to us, poor devils, whom the Grundyites would not only remunerate, but kick out of society as barely respectable…”
From: Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir
Letters 1842-1845
By Alfred Tennyson, 1897
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek anthos (flower) + mania (madness)
EXAMPLE
“…I had a little garden, too, of my own, which generated the intense love of flowers that has procured for me the kindred title of an anthomaniac…”
From: The Moneyed Man,
Or, The Lesson of a Life
By Horace Smith, 1814
ETYMOLOGY
? from Celtic Cornish kwilken (a frog)
EXAMPLE
“…And yet ’tis the bestest thing as could fall ‘pon the gal. Er was lookin’ for the cheel in a month or so, they do say., Poor sawl! – so cold as a quilkin now, and the unborn baaby tu…”
From: Lying Prophets
A Novel, By Eden Phillpotts, 1896
Chapter Eight, The Destination of Joan
ETYMOLOGY
from muck (a dishevelled, dirty or sweaty state) + suckle
EXAMPLE
“…Thereupon, he turned to the other men there, saying, “She were a bit of a muck-suckle, but she could blow my bag-pipe good as any…”
From: Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife
By Linda Berdoll, 2004
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