An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1840 - English language |
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... explained by Johnson as meaning men of all sorts , but absurdly accounted for as implying dogs , and consequently as some with long tails , and others with short , and so both kinds . I take it to be the travesty of - guit aenloncke t ...
... explained by Johnson as meaning men of all sorts , but absurdly accounted for as implying dogs , and consequently as some with long tails , and others with short , and so both kinds . I take it to be the travesty of - guit aenloncke t ...
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... explained step in step - father ; and so it is in step - son , step - daughter , step - children , and step- dame . HIGH TIME . As when we say , it is high time to go ; high time it should be done , & c . & c . Heughe t'heim ; q . e . a ...
... explained step in step - father ; and so it is in step - son , step - daughter , step - children , and step- dame . HIGH TIME . As when we say , it is high time to go ; high time it should be done , & c . & c . Heughe t'heim ; q . e . a ...
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... explained ; and thus like all reference to the Anglo - Saxon dia- lect as a source of our terms , either a putting the cart before the horse or else an ignorant tit for tat . It is probable our to addle may belong here ; but of this in ...
... explained ; and thus like all reference to the Anglo - Saxon dia- lect as a source of our terms , either a putting the cart before the horse or else an ignorant tit for tat . It is probable our to addle may belong here ; but of this in ...
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... explained above . I am not aware of any other at- tempt at an etymology for this term , except that made by MR . THOMPSON in his ETYMONS , who brings it out of the Anglo - Saxon agettan [ to dedicate , to institute , to consecrate ] ...
... explained above . I am not aware of any other at- tempt at an etymology for this term , except that made by MR . THOMPSON in his ETYMONS , who brings it out of the Anglo - Saxon agettan [ to dedicate , to institute , to consecrate ] ...
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... explained above . A STAG . As the full grown buck or male of the deer - kind ; a male deer five years old . In the first year called a fawn , in the second a pricker , in the third a sorel , in the fourth a sore or staggard , in the ...
... explained above . A STAG . As the full grown buck or male of the deer - kind ; a male deer five years old . In the first year called a fawn , in the second a pricker , in the third a sorel , in the fourth a sore or staggard , in the ...
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analogous Anglo-Saxon aspirate belongs bend Bije BILDERDIJK bring called CHAUCER chop contracted participle present derives dialect dije dijen direction of sense Doogh Dutch ellipsis etymology evidently explained expression favour fellow female fetch fool formerly spelt French German gode grete grounded groundedly hand head heart heet heeten Hence herte hold hoon HORNE TOOKE horse HUDIBRAS IBID IDEM ijse implying import intermutating Italian JOHNSON says keye labour language Latin literal form maie meaning mede meê metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite pronounce prosopopoeia question quoth regard Saxon schie semid SHAKSPEARE shrewd sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect taele tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE travesty trope turn utter verb watir whence Wijse word wote