The OED Quotations and Authors: FORD. I beseech you, heartily, some of you go home with meto dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have sport; I willshow you a monster. Master Doctor, you shall go; so shallyou, Master Page; and…
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Spirit-rapper
The OED “Odd fish!” “Poor fellow!” “Who can he be?” “Casper Hauser.” “Bless my soul!” “Uncommon countenance.” “Green prophet from Utah.” “Humbug!””Singular innocence.” “Means something.” “Spirit-rapper.” “Moon-calf.” “Piteous.” “Trying to enlist interest.” “Beware of him.” “Fast asleep here, and, doubtless,…
White-livered
The OED The colors and shapes of ‘-liveredness‘ white-livered milk-livered lily-livered pidgeon-livered chicken-livered hot livered Quotations and Authors: Let the two edged sword of Gods holy word there asunder the sinowes of worldly respects, euen to the very marrow of…
Septentrion
The OED Quotations and Authors: Yet he, as telleth us Swetonius, 3655This wyde world hadde in subieccioun,Both Est and West, South and Septemtrioun;Of rubies, saphires, and of perles whyteWere alle his clothes brouded up and doun;For he in gemmes greetly…
Garden Pot
The OED Quotations and Authors: MOON. [within.] Here, mistress.NIGHT. How now, Ursula? in a heat, in a heat?URS. My chair, you false faucet you; and my morning’s draught,quickly, a bottle of ale, to quench me, rascal. I am all fire…
Cod’s Head
The OED Quotations and Authors: She that, being anger’d, her revenge being nigh,Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly;She that in wisdom never was so frailTo change the cod’s head for the salmon’s tail;She that could think and ne’er…
Pet
The OED PET n. 3 Offence at being or feeling slighted; a fit of peevishness or ill humour from this cause, (now) esp. a childish sulk. Frequently in in a pet. Also to take (the) pet: to take offence, to become bad-tempered or sulky…
Words of the Day: December 19 2020 – January 28 2021
To explore quotations for the OED or Merriam-Webster Word of the Day 19/12/2020-28/1/2021, follow this link. Jeopardy Itinerant Ear-tickling Obeisance Insouciance Sarcophagus Gulosity Conjecture Preeminent Modicum Effusive Servile Nevvy Rapport Pedantic Treason Haet Devious Pugilism Comely Megrim Dissociate Apologia Feckless…