ETYMOLOGY
from Latin tinctus (a dyeing) + mūtāntem (changing)
EXAMPLE
“…The chameleon is the best known of all the tinctumutants (tinctus, color, and mutare, to change), though many other animals possess this faculty in a very marked degree…”
From: The Popular Science Monthly
January, 1895
Animal Tinctumutants
By Dr. James Weir, Jr.
ETYMOLOGY
from pebble (n.) + beached (adj.)
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1890 – see EXAMPLE below
EXAMPLE
“…He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence….”
From: A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker’s Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology
– Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland
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