LAMENTATIOUS
also LAMENTACIOUS 

ADJ.
marked by lamentation ...1532 obs. rare
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ETYMOLOGY
from lamentation, from French lamentation or from Latin lāmentātiōnem, (n.), from lāmentārī (to lament)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1532 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Trewly me thynketh that the sowne of my lamentacious wepyng is right nowe flowe in to your presence, and there cryeth after mercy and grace, to which thing, me semeth, the lyst none answere to yeue; but with a deynous chere ye commaunden it to auoyde. But God forbyd that any worde shuld of you springe to haue so lytel routh..." 
From: The Workes of Geffray Chaucer
Usk's The Testament of Love
Edited by William Thynne

HOB-NOBBLE

VERB
to talk intimately and confidentially together; to hob-nob ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
from hob-nob (vb. to hold familiar intercourse)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1898 - HOB-NOBBLE, v. to hob-nob; to talk intimately and confidentially together
From: The English Dialect Dictionary
- Edited by Joseph Wright

EXAMPLE
"...They're hob-nobbling ower summat. A seed ' em both i ' th ” road hob-nobbling together..."
From: The English Dialect Dictionary
- Edited by Joseph Wright
​

JOBLIJOCK
 
NOUN
1. anything tending to interfere with domestic comfort or peace, as a scolding wife, a smoking chimney, etc.; domestic trouble or discomfort ...Bk1868 Eng. dial.
2. a turkey-cock ...Bk1912 Eng. dial.
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ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
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FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1868 - Joblijock, sb. Anything tending to interfere with domestic comfort or peace; e.g. a smoking chimney, a scolding wife, &c.
From: A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: explanatory, derivative, and critical
- John Christopher Atkinson 

INTERGERN
 
VERB
to exchange grins or snarls; to snarl back ...1608 obs. rare
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ETYMOLOGY
from inter- + gern (vb. to girn, to utter in a snarling tone)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1608 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...The eager dogs are cheer'd with claps and cryes,
The angry beast to his best chamber flies,
And (angled there) sits grimly inter-gerning,
And all the earth rings with the terryes yearning..." 
From: Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes Translated and Dedicated to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie By Iosuah Syluester
- Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas
Translated by Joshua Sylvester

PAUCILOQUENT
 
ADJ.
speaking briefly; using few words in speech or conversation; laconic ...1656 rare
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ETYMOLOGY
from pauci- (comb. form. of Latin paucus few, little) + Latin loquentem (speaking)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - Pauciloquent (pauciloquus) that speaketh little
From: Glossographia; Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all such Hard Words, of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with Etymologies, Definitions and Historical Observations on the same
- Thomas Blount

EXAMPLE
"...religious melancholy, with reservedness; weeping, howling, and pauciloquent; distressing complaints; dread of being left alone, of apparitions, of dead persons, ghosts, crawling worms, thieves, etc..."
From: Special Therapeutics, According to Homoeopathic Principles
- Franz Hartmann
Third Volume. Mental Diseases
Edited by Dr. G.H. G. Jahr
Translated by John M. Galloway, 1857

SHIVERY-BIVERY
 
ADJ.
shaking with cold or fright ...Bk1893 Eng. dial.
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ETYMOLOGY
reduplication of shivery

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1893 - Shivery-bivery. All in a shake with cold or fright
From: A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire
- George Edward Dartnell & the Rev. Edward Hungerford Goddard
 
EXAMPLE
"...And what happened?" Edwin had asked, pen poised over notebook.
"It were a foggy night, sir. I stood a bit away and watched that stone very close, you may be sure. All of a sudden there was a crash. I went all shivery-bivery, sir, and took to my heels..."
From: The Guardian Stones
- Eric Reed, 2016

ASSOPIATE
 
VERB
to lull, to calm, to assuage; to lay at rest; to put an end to ...1641 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
irregular from French assopir (Cotgrave), modern assoupir, or Italian assopire, from Latin as- = ad- to + sopīre (to lull asleep)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1641 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...As likewayes being interrogat what wes the reasone why suche a paper would have been drawn up, in justificatione of that Band which wes burnt and disclaimed, answered, that it wes not intended as ane justificatione of the Band, for they did imagine that all of that kynd wes already assopiat, bot that iwes his Lordships owne privat thoughts..."
From: Memorials of Montrose and His Times
XXIV. Montrose's Declaration Before the Committee of Estates, August 1641
- Edited by Mark Napier, 1848

SCOIL
also SKOIL, SKOYL
 
NOUN
a squeal, a shriek; a yell; a high-pitched roar or bellow, especially of a cow ...1815 Sc. obs.

VERB
to squeal, to shriek, to scream; to yell or roar in a high-pitched voice ...1866 Sc. obs.

ETYMOLOGY
a local variant of squeal

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1815 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...But a' his airts could not avail him,
In every shape did John assail him;
And to ilk bellow, roust, and roar,
He lustily cried out, encore!
Till echo, for ten miles around,
Did do the horrid scoil resound..."
From: John O' Arnha'. A Tale. To which is added The Murderit Mynstrell, and Other Poems
- George Beattie (1883)
First Published in The Montrose Review, 1815

BLESILOQUENT
 
ADJ.
speaking with a stammer; having some impediment in speech ...1656 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin blæsiloquentem, from blæsus (lisping, stammering) + loquentem (speaking)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1656 - Blesiloquent (blaesiloquus) broad-spoken, or that speaks stammeringly.
From: Glossographia, Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all such Hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with etymologies, definitions and historical observations on the same
- Thomas Blount
 
EXAMPLE
"...Members of Parliament who wish to abuse each other without using unparliamentary language would find The New World of Words a useful handbook. They might gracefully call gentlemen on the other side of the House either blesiloquent or superbiloquent, they might accuse an opponent of morology with impunity, whereas if they were to say that he was "talking like a fool," they might be called to order by the Speaker, who would consider them immorigerous (rude), and describe their behaviour as propudious (shameful)..."
From: The Saturday Review
Of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art
No. 1,834, Vol. 70, December 20, 1890
The New World of Words

DUNCIFY
 
VERB
to make a dunce of; to make dull, stupid, slow-witted or confused ...1594

ETYMOLOGY
from dunce (n. a person who is slow at learning or of dull intelligence) + -fy

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1594 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...This tale must at one time or other giue vp the ghost, and as good now as stay longer, I would gladly rid my hands of it cleanly if I could tell how, for what with talking of coblers, & tinkers, & rapemakers, and botchers, and durtdaubers, the marke is cleane gone out of my muses mouth, and I am as it were more than dunsified twixt diuinitie and poetrie. What is there more as touching this tragedie that you would be resolued of? saie quickly, for now my pen is got vpon his féet again..."
From: The Vnfortunate Traueller. Or, The Life of Iacke Wilton
- Thomas Nashe

​CUDDLE-MUDDLE
 
NOUN
a secret conversation, often with evil intent, or supposed evil intent; a low, muttered conversation ...Bk1866 Sc.

VERB
to speak in a secret, muttering voice ...Bk1866 Sc.

ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin
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FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1866 - CUDDLE-MUDDLE, n. a secret confabulation; often with evil intent, or supposed evil intent; as, "The twa canna be aboot gueede: they're haudin' sic a cuddle-muddle thegeethir...
From: The Dialect of Banffshire: With a Glossary of Words Not in Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary
- Walter Gregor
 

​MARINORAMA
 
NOUN
a panoramic representation of sea views; a representation of this ...1832
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ETYMOLOGY
from marine + -orama, after panorama

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1832 - Marin'orama. Sea views
From: The Etymological Spelling Book and Expositor: Being an Introduction to the Spelling, Pronunciation, and Derivation of the English Language
- Henry Butter
 
EXAMPLE
"...We were at the water’s edge; the ripples warily climbed the coral terrace below us; the sea fell bravely upon 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

​​CONFARREATION
 
NOUN
1. the highest and most solemn form of marriage among the ancient Romans, made in the presence of the Pontifex Maximus or the Flamen Dialis and ten witnesses, and marked by the offering of a cake made of spelt (a species of grain related to wheat, formerly much cultivated in Southern Europe) ...1598
2. a wedding, marriage ...1645 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin confarreātiōnem (n. of action from confarreāre to unite in marriage by the offering of bread), from con- + farreus (of spelt, corn, or grain), farreum (a spelt-cake), from far, farr-is (grain, spelt), whence farreātus, farreātio

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1598 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"...And it fell out that, that iust number coulde not bee founde, the vse of confarreation, or marriage with a cake of Wheate, either not vsed, or only of a few: whereof he alleaged many reasons, though the chiefest was, the carelesnes of men and women: and withall the difficulties of the ceremonies, which were willingly let slip..."
From: The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The Description of Germanie.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Translated by Richard Grenewey

MISS CROSS-STICKS
also MRS. CROSS-STICKS
 
NOUN
a cross or bad-tempered woman ...Bk1922

ETYMOLOGY
from cross (short-tempered) + sticks;
(also see First Documented Use - possibly a character in 'The Miser'?)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1922 - Cross-sticks, Miss (Mrs.): a cross or bad-tempered woman. [Fielding, The Miser, I, i, 1733]
From: A Dictionary of English Phrases
- Albert M. Hyamson

DAPOCAGINOUS
 
ADJ.
that has a little or narrow heart; mean-spirited, low-spirited, heartless, of little worth ...1674 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from the Italian dapoco (of little value)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1674 - Dapocaginous (from the Ital. dapoco), that has a little or narrow heart, low-spirited, of little worth
From: Glossographia; Or, A Dictionary Interpreting all such Dard words of whatsoever Language, now used in our refined English tongue
- Thomas Blount

ABESSED
 
ADJ.
humbled, abased, cast down, debased, dejected ...1707 obs.

ETYMOLOGY
from the French abaisser (to depress, to abase, to humiliate)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1707 - Abessed, (Fr.) debased, dejected, or brought down
From: Glossographia Anglicana Nova, Or, A Dictionary Interpreting Such Hard Words of whatever Language, as are at present used in the English tongue
- Thomas Blount

WHACKER

ADJ.
1. wakeful, easy to be awaked ...1790 Eng. dial.
2. larger than ordinary ...Bk1912 Eng. dial.
3. excellent, wonderful ...1940s Aust. sl.

NOUN
1. anything abnormally large or notable of its kind; a big lie; a heavy blow, a thump ...1770
2. a driver of animals; a drover; an ox or mule driver ...1827 Amer. dial.
3. a police truncheon ...1916 UK criminals' sl.
4. something excellent ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
5. (also WACKER) an affectionate or teasing term of address ...1949 sl.
6. (also WACKER) a masturbator ...1965 sl.
7. (also WACKER) a fool ...1965 Aust. sl.
8. a person who is seriously mentally unstable ...1965 Aust. sl.
9. a gadget, a thing ...20C US sl.
10. the penis ...20C US sl.
11. a small glass of brandy ...1993 Irish sl.

VERB
to tremble, to shake, to quake ...Bk1828 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
for n. 2. - from whack (vb. to beat or strike vigorously ) + -er

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1770 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...On this Ulysses turn'd about,
And fell to pummelling the rout:
To Cromeus, an East-India packer,
He lent a knock, and such a whacker,
It brought him down; then bold Alester
He soon sent off to beg a plaister..."
From: A Burlesque Translation of Homer, Volume 1
- Thomas Bridges
A Burlesque Translation of Homer, Volume 1By Thomas Bridges

MOOZLES

NOUN
a slow, stupid, slovenly person ...1847 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
from Provincial Danish mosle (to be dull or lazy at work)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1847 - Moozles. A stupid sloven. Linc.
From: A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century
- James Orchard Halliwell

EXAMPLE
"...She's no-but a poor moozles...."
From: A Glossary of Words Used in South-West Lincolnshire (Wapentake of Graffoe)
- Robert Eden George Cole, 1886

​FAMELICOSE
 
ADJ.
often or very hungry ...1727 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin famēlicōsus, from fames (hunger)
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1727 - FAMELICOSE (famelicosus, L.) often or very hungry
From: The Universal Etymological English Dictionary
- Nathan Bailey

EXAMPLE
"...I guess all Punjabis are famelicose because no matter how much we eat, we can still manage to eat more if given something that is delicious..."
From: Unanswered Questions: Love is Lost When the Answers are Assumed
- Katie Khanna, 2016

BUNGFUNGER

​VERB
to startle, to confuse ...1836 US
​
ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1836 - see EXAMPLE below

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 did'nt think it would come to pass so soon, but I knew it would come; I foretold it; says I, the last time I seed him, Jim, says I, mind what I say, YOU'LL SWING FOR IT YET..."
From: The Clockmaker; Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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DUMB-COMPLAINING

ADJ.
showing sadness or grief in the face, but not expressing it in words ...1788

ETYMOLOGY
from dumb + complaining

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1788 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...What softness in its melancholy face,
What dumb complaining innocence appears!
Fear not, ye gentle tribes, 'tis not the knife
Of horrid slaughter that is o'er you wav'd..."
From: A Poetical Anthology or a Choice Collection of Fables, Eclogues, Epistles, Satires, Elegies, Odes, and Ballads; Selected from the Best English Poets;
The Seasons: Summer
- James Thomson