ETYMOLOGY
from bull (trivial talk or nonsense) + squitter (to squirt, to spatter, to sputter)
EXAMPLE
She had everyone running around looking for her umbrella, but it was all bull-squitter as there wasn’t a cloud to be seen.
ETYMOLOGY
from churl + -y
EXAMPLE
“… But all this while, the shop where Jonah sleeps,
Is tost, and torne, and batter’d on the deeps,
And well-nigh split upon the threatning Rock,
With many a boystrous brush, and churley knock.
God help all desp’rate voyagers, and keepe
All such, as feele thy wonders on the deepe. …”
From: Divine poems: containing the History of -Jonah. Ester. Job. Samson.; Sions – sonets. Elegies.
By Francis Quarles, 1638
ETYMOLOGY
from bubbly (full of bubbles) + the Scots male forename Jock
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… there was the turkey, whom the poetical Scott calls the bubbly-jock, gobbling in the distance, with a melodious gurgle as of an oboe played softly; …”
From: With Harp and Crown, A Novel
By Walter Besant and James Rice, 1800
ETYMOLOGY
from Ichabod, the name given by Eli’s daughter-in-law to her son, used as an exclamation of regret, in allusion to 1 Sam. iv. 21
EXAMPLE
“… Dirges were sung with an Ichabodian refrain. …”
From: Daily News
December, 1887
ETYMOLOGY
from glum + -y
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1)
“… yet it can not be denyed, but that such casuall blastes may happen, as are most too bee feared, when the wether waxeth darke and glummy. …”
From: The Triall of Truth, wherein are discovered three greate enemies vnto mankind
By Edward Knight, 1580
ETYMOLOGY
vb.: from Old French troillier, truillier, treuiller, from Middle High German trüllen
EXAMPLE (for vb.)
“… Thus with treison and with trecherie · þow troiledest hem boþe,
And dudest hem breke [here] buxomnesse · þorw false by-heste;
Thus haddest þou hem oute · and hyder atte laste. …”
(Thus with treason and with treachery · thou troiledest them both,
And diddest them break their buxomness · through false byhest;
Thus haddest thou them out · and hither at the last.)
From: The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman
By William Langland, 1393
ETYMOLOGY
perhaps the same as Tib, a shortened hypocoristic form of the female name Isabel; now rather rude or slighting (except playfully);
also with dim. -y or -ie, Tibbie, a common female name in the north
EXAMPLE
“… .Trupeny. Mary then prickmedaintie come toste me a fig,
Who shall then know our Tib Talke apace trow ye?
An. Alyface. And why not Annot Alyface as fyne as she?
Trupeny. And what had Tom Trupeny, a father or none?
An. Alyface. Then our prety newe come man will looke to be one …”
From: Ralph Roister Doister
By Nicholas Udall, a1556
ETYMOLOGY
for. n. 1. & n. 2. from cuff (to strike with the fist or open hand, to buffet) + -er
for n. 4. from cuff (to discuss, to talk over) + -er
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… LET US LEARN THE LAWS OF FASTING, that we run not uncertainly, nor beat the air, nor be as such cuffers who fight as it were with their shadow. Fasting is a medicine; but physick, although it be never so good, that is prescribed, oftimes becomes unprofitable, by reason of the imprudence of him that useth it. …”
From: The Paschal or Lent-Fast, Apostolical & Perpetual at first deliver’d in a sermon preached before His Majesty in Lent and since enlarged
By Peter Gunning, 1662
ETYMOLOGY
reduplication of wrangle (n.) with change of vowel as in jingle-jangle, tingle-tangle, etc.
EXAMPLE
“…It was a most delightful godsend to the paper in which it appeared, and it came at a time when the House was not sitting, and there was no wringle-wrangle of debates to furnish material for the columns of big type which are supposed to sway the masses. …”
From: All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story
By Walter Besant, 1882
ETYMOLOGY
noun: from the French
verb: French blaguer, from the noun
EXAMPLE
“…In later editions of The French Revolution Carlyle did not alter a word of his original account. Instead, he added directly to the main text a new concluding paragraph correcting Barere’s story, which he terms a ‘masterpiece; the largest, most inspiring piece of blague manufactured, for some centuries, by any man or nation. As such, and not otherwise, be it henceforth memorable’…”
From: The French Revolution
By Thomas Carlyle, 1839
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