ETYMOLOGY
from putty (in the sense of something soft, something that can be bent any way) + head
EXAMPLE
“…The pickings must be equally divided amongst both classes of the harmonious democracie ‘putty heads’ and ‘adamantines’…”
From: The Janesville Gazette (Wisconsin), 1851
ETYMOLOGY
from Greek πᾶν, pan, (“all”, “of everything”, “involving all members” of a group)
+ from Latin ichthyophagus,
from Greek ἴχθυοϕάγος from Greek ἰχθυο- (fish-) + -ϕάγος (eating),
from ϕαγεῖν (to eat) + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…The caranx, trachurus, or bastard mackerel, probably corresponds with the individual so called by Oppian and Athenaeus. It abounds in the Mediterranean, and is a dry coarse fish, fit only for hungry boatmen and panichthyophagous puss…”
From: Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country
Volume 47, March 1853
The Caranx
ETYMOLOGY
from cugger (to hold a confidential conversation)
EXAMPLE
“…There was a great laugh at Tim’s answer; and then there was a whispering, and a great cugger mugger and coshering; and at last a pretty little bit of a voice said, “Shut your eyes, and you’ll see, Tim…”
From: Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.
By Thomas Crofton Croker, 1859
Treasure Legends. Dreaming Tim Jarvis
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ostrea (oyster) + -o- connective + -phagous (combining form, feeding on a specified kind of food)
EXAMPLE
“…A great advantage to the ostreophagous part of our population…”
From: Daily News (London), February 17, 1882
ETYMOLOGY
– from ancient Greek ϕιλόκαλος (loving the beautiful);
from ϕιλο- (philo-) + καλός (beautiful) + –ist (suffix)
EXAMPLE
“…This poor, vindictive, solitary, and powerful creature, was a philocalist: he had a singular love of flowers and of beautiful women.”
From: Horae Subsecivae
Locke and Sydenham, with other occasional papers
By John Brown · 1858
ETYMOLOGY
? from jounce to bump, thump and jolt, as a vehicle in deep ruts
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1857 – Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English
– Thomas Wright, 1857
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