An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1837 - English language |
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... tell . Vee , cattle , beast , and , when applied to a person , a term of reproach and insult , correspond- ing to dirty fellow , low rascal , blackguard , one of the rabble ; de la canaille . The phrase is some- times shortened to to ...
... tell . Vee , cattle , beast , and , when applied to a person , a term of reproach and insult , correspond- ing to dirty fellow , low rascal , blackguard , one of the rabble ; de la canaille . The phrase is some- times shortened to to ...
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... tell you , it is as μvos ( speech ) ; but the mouth of a cow , and of a river , is as good English as the mouth of a man ; and that through which speech is produced can never be the sense of the term in those cases . Horne Tooke derives ...
... tell you , it is as μvos ( speech ) ; but the mouth of a cow , and of a river , is as good English as the mouth of a man ; and that through which speech is produced can never be the sense of the term in those cases . Horne Tooke derives ...
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... tell who may be the next object of the back biter's venom ; some one is sure to be a sufferer , though no one can tell beforehand who it may be ; when or where the * Makes mouth at him ; makes faces at him ; taunts him . + Mouth ...
... tell who may be the next object of the back biter's venom ; some one is sure to be a sufferer , though no one can tell beforehand who it may be ; when or where the * Makes mouth at him ; makes faces at him ; taunts him . + Mouth ...
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... tell more , than that , from the nature of the person , he is sure to find a subject somehow or somewhere ; whether friend or foe , guilt or innocence , is to be his aim , remains uncertain till the blow is felt . So that both by ...
... tell more , than that , from the nature of the person , he is sure to find a subject somehow or somewhere ; whether friend or foe , guilt or innocence , is to be his aim , remains uncertain till the blow is felt . So that both by ...
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... telling the other , he has reason for so doing , and an equal respon- sibility attaches to it in either case . As now used , the phrase applies to cessations of intercourse upon lighter grounds of offence , such as the one becoming ...
... telling the other , he has reason for so doing , and an equal respon- sibility attaches to it in either case . As now used , the phrase applies to cessations of intercourse upon lighter grounds of offence , such as the one becoming ...
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Common terms and phrases
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 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 toyen travesty trope turn utter verb whence Wijse word wote