Glossary of Supposed AmericanismsJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - 122 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... spell of laughter is our word . ALLEY , among several other meanings , has that of a marble . " A white alley , " may be heard from every school - boy in the marble season . It is an abbrevia- tion of alabaster , of which these toys ...
... spell of laughter is our word . ALLEY , among several other meanings , has that of a marble . " A white alley , " may be heard from every school - boy in the marble season . It is an abbrevia- tion of alabaster , of which these toys ...
Pàgina 17
... spells it axe . Acisan is the Anglo - Saxon . B. BACE , or BASE . Prison base , or bars , was a game played by school - boys in our time , and is probably still played in New England ; it is an old amusement , and is mentioned by ...
... spells it axe . Acisan is the Anglo - Saxon . B. BACE , or BASE . Prison base , or bars , was a game played by school - boys in our time , and is probably still played in New England ; it is an old amusement , and is mentioned by ...
Pàgina 28
... spells it catche . appears a disposition , in certain of the more Anglo- Saxon parts of England , to turn short a into short e , as bed for bad . They have their authority in some of the oldest writers in the language . I have never ...
... spells it catche . appears a disposition , in certain of the more Anglo- Saxon parts of England , to turn short a into short e , as bed for bad . They have their authority in some of the oldest writers in the language . I have never ...
Pàgina 108
... spell of weather ; never , I believe , of a pleasant spell ; and also , " come , you try it a spell . " The first seems peculiar ; the last Hol- loway gives as a Sussex and Hampshire phrase . Junius calls it a nautical term , and ...
... spell of weather ; never , I believe , of a pleasant spell ; and also , " come , you try it a spell . " The first seems peculiar ; the last Hol- loway gives as a Sussex and Hampshire phrase . Junius calls it a nautical term , and ...
Pàgina 109
... spell , though not exactly in the same way , yet approaching it : we shall have a long spell of bad weather ; he was confined to the house a spell ; he had a bad spell of sickness . Whence it comes , we know not . There is a Dutch and ...
... spell , though not exactly in the same way , yet approaching it : we shall have a long spell of bad weather ; he was confined to the house a spell ; he had a bad spell of sickness . Whence it comes , we know not . There is a Dutch and ...
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afeard ancestors appears applied ball beat Beaumont and Fletcher's blow boys Britton Brock Brockett called Chaucer Chester County common expression common word contempt corruption Craven Dialect Craven Glossary derives Dict doubt East Anglia Essex Exmoor Exmoor Dialect farmers fellow Forby frequent German Grose gives Hallamshire Glossary Hampshire hear heard this word Hereford Glossary Holloway gives HONEST WHore horse Icelandic word implies Jennings John Noakes kelter kind known land language Latin Leatherhead meaning meant Middleton's month's mind Moor gives mulligrubs never heard Norfolk North Country word North of England old word once origin Pennsylvania person piece played probably pronounced pronunciation provincialisms Queenborough Roaring Girl sarse Saxon word school-boys scrawny sense Shakspeare sometimes heard sort South spanking spell spelt substantive Suffolk supposed Sussex Tale tarnation thing thou tion Tod's Johnson uncommon verb vulgar West of England whence Wilbraham Wiltshire Yankee Yorkshire
Passatges populars
Pàgina 68 - Fair's pestilence dead methinks ; people come not abroad to-day, whatever the matter is. Do you hear, sister Trash, lady of the basket? sit farther with your gingerbread progeny there, and hinder not the prospect of my shop, or I'll have it proclaimed in the Fair, what stuff they are made on.
Pàgina 66 - French times damnees," which flew in a train from one sea to the other, and were looked upon as ominous by the inhabitants. It is held extremely portentous, says Grose, to kill a cricket, a ladybug, a swallow, martin, robin redbreast, or wren ; perhaps from the idea of its being a breach of hospitality ; all these birds and insects alike taking refuge in houses.
Pàgina 68 - Mar my market, thou too-proud pedler ! do thy worst, I defy thee,. I, and thy stable of hobbyhorses. I pay for my ground as well as thou dost : an...
Pàgina 80 - A rural game, played by making holes in the ground in the angles and sides of a square, and placing stones or other things upon them, according to certain rules. These figures are called nine men's morris, or...
Pàgina 114 - Ther undar foot dyd lyght. At last the Duglas and the Perse met, Lyk to captayns of myght and mayne; The swapte together tyll the both swat With swordes, that wear of fyn myllan.
Pàgina 86 - Yes, sir, for every part has his hour. We wake at six and look about us, that's eye hour; at seven we should pray, that's knee hour; at eight walk, that's leg hour; at nine gather flowers, and pluck a rose, that's nose hour; at ten we drink, that's mouth hour; at eleven lay about us for victuals, that's hand hour; at twelve go to dinner, that's belly hour.
Pàgina 86 - Yes, sir, for every part has his hour: we wake at six and look about us, that's eye-hour; at seven we should pray, that's knee-hour; at eight walk, that's leg-hour; at nine gather flowers and pluck a rose,' that's nose-hour; at ten we drink, that's mouth-hour; at eleven lay about us for victuals, that's hand-hour; at twelve go to dinner, that's belly-hour.
Pàgina 49 - Madam, he sets us light, that serv'd in court, In place of credit, in his father's days : If we but enter presence of his grace, Our payment is a frown, a scoff, a frump...
Pàgina 73 - A portion of a dish left by the guests, that the host may not feel himself reproached for insufficient preparation.
Pàgina 102 - Norweg. sleip, adj., slippery, sleip, sb., a smooth piece of timber for dragging anything over, esp. • used of pieces of timber used for the foundation of a road, the same as North. E. slab, ' the outside plank of a piece of timber, when sawn into boards,