azubda, n.

azubda, n.

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Pronunciation: ə - z - oo - b - d - ə

  Forms:  Also asoobda, alasobda, alsubda, alzoobde.

  Etymology:  Ultimately < Arabic الزبدة (al-zubda) butter, fat, quintessence.

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  a. In early physiology, a component of suet or animal fat which acted upon the natural excretions of an animal body in order to increase or decrease the pleasurability of the odors produced thereby.

1716    A. TREEMERSON Fumivorist (ed. 2) 289    Moreover, albeit that such driving Atomies, obsiting the Body, and proceeding by way of the Lungs, are rumored to impregnate the alasobda, and may diffuse throughout the otherwise euodic Staxis which, flowing regularly therefrom, [etc.].

  b. A hypothesized organ responsible for the production of individual odor.

  2. fig. A sudden and unexplainable variation, esp. an increase, in a person's natural charm, personal appeal, or sexual attractiveness.

1771    Y. D'BOURRELETTE Misocaly §55. iii. 9    No alsubda confounds the sagacious faculties of the uncommon adecastic readily able to distinguish..the relevant properties. 

1815    A. KREMMISTER Plinks and Sulphet xiix. 14    An enchanting if exacting philoxenist..who comprehended the singular azubda of the cangeant gipsy. 

quoomvolatic, n.

quoomˈvolatic, n.

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Forms:  15 quumuolatick, 15-16 qoomuolatick, 15-16 qoomuolatic, 16– qoomvolatic.
Etymology:  < Quum (now usually Quom), the name of a shrine in central Buran, where this type of rug or carpet is actuated + volatic < Latin volāticus, < volāt-, participial stem of volāre to fly.

  A flying carpet.

1654    L. GURVITH Invt. Gurvith Resedence 64. pp    Three dusty qoomuolaticks wrapped in piceous poldauie.

1721    V. g. FUSSON Anagraphs V. Fusson 23 July 1715    Inspctn of qoomvolatic by thaumatrg.

2011    Zimm 17º /1002    I'd as lief command the bridge of this dusty anachronism as the unravelling fringe of a quoomvolatic.

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DERIVATIVES

'quoomvole  adj.  (of travel) taking place by means of flying carpet. 

quoom'volator  n.  one in the habit of journeying by flying carpet, or similarly impractical and ostentatious voiture.

1833    B. B. PASTEY Expos. Sports & Pastimes §12. c    Too intent on striking the bargecourse with lime to cognize a crankling quoomvolator orcken nicely above his crown.

a1845    M. THISTLEWICK Divers Pilgrims (1851) III. xix. 12    The ambassador, an accustomable quoomvolator, sufficiented in her aeriferous curiosity by the great treasury of that commonweal, [etc.].

rascort, v.

ras'cort, v.

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Forms:  17–  rascortt.
Etymology:  < Italian, irreg. arascorta, < southern Italian ariscorgere to detect, to notice, < late Latin rado grazed, scraped +  corrigĕre to set right.

trans. To hear (words spoken, a person speaking, etc.) despite their having gone unnoticed or unacknowledged by other members of the present company.

1704    d. MALTIN Voyages 102    The Moment she inclined..Cherythe rascortted the quiet censure, which in the nonce, issued from the pendulous Woman in verte waistcoat.

1826    P. FOOJDAR Ointments North i.3    Rascorting those commensals and trencher-companions who, seated at boisterous tables, and displaying minutest emblems of disgruntlement, disclosed the many footprints from which proceeded the precious discoveries exposed herein.

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ras'corted  adj.

1734    D. DARGY Coll. Thank Yee Lett. (ed. 2) V. №65. iv    The boorish custom here persists, to opinionate aspersions upon the host, in loud & buccinal tones, lest impertinent offspring, servants or visitants delibate pleasure from an insult rascorted.

weggen, adj.

weggen, adj.

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Forms:  18- weggan.
Etymology:  < Swedish wudjen twisted, squeezed. 

a. Of speech: ominous or threatening in a subtle, ambiguous manner; wryly portentous.

1801    V. SUPHAR Table Manners fasc. xiim. 3    Beginning the prandial music I at once was greeted by glances agee and weggen praise.

1852    A. TURTOP et al. tr. Sancy, au sieur de la Peine Crammingpouch §104    Weggen sentiments .. quite pestilential to swollen sophistry. 

1911    E. WADDINGTON Tricks Next to a Window iv. 27    Her wife's still, dark, weggen eyes in the pleached shadows of the yet unloft acelle [nacelle].

b. fig.

1833    B. B. PASTEY Expos. Sports & Pastimes §215. k    A 'bagatello' manufactory some distance from the mileway whose weggen ridges .. proved an accurate physiognomy of the proprietor.

calliposis, n.

calli'posis, n.

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Forms:  15 kaliposis, 16–17 calaposis, 16-18 callaposis, 17- caliposis.
Inflections:  Plural calliposes.
Etymology:  < Greek καλλίπωσις, adjective < καλλι- comb. form of κάλλος beauty + πύειν to form, stamp. 

  a. A beautiful representation.

1583    A. FOSTER Hete the Marcke II. i. 9    Nor full knowe a way, this calaposis could contriue to ouerturne of that fate, which nouther whithere might resultith.

1794    G. BEAUBOT Consideration of Embracery X. 453    The well-framed calliposis, of a bespoke and practical politician, burnishing a silver coin and brooking an abrazo, which came to a knockdown prognostication.

1858    R. LEOPARDO Aphelion Rudimenting 357   One prefers even a runagate calliposis to the intemperate presentation of calumets, effuming somnolent smoke, by a votary of Minerva.

b. In extended use. A picture, esp. a masterwork.

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DERIVATIVES

calli'potic  adj.

lomble, adj.

lomble, adj.

Forms:  ME  loumbil, ME loumbel, ME lowmball, 15-16 laumbles, 15-17 lumble, 16–18 laumble, 17– lombl, 18- lomble.

  Etymology:  < Old Norse lýmba stringy, tough, unsoftened (cognate with Old English leomban bark, phellem).

Now arch.

  (Of fruit, produce) unripe, green, not matured by growth, esp. so as to make raw consumption undesirable.

c1320   Corpus Gydde (1817) sig. B. ixi^v    Þe loumbil frut oway he bar and nefere gedereð þet frut on oðer time.

1514   ‘OWHART’ Epileny iii. 5    Vayn and idel discourse repe’d a lumble croppe.

1727   P. HOMBUERG  Œcon. Tech. Arts (1910) III. xix. 21    Persistence of lomble wheat hulls presents an impediment to the swift milling thereof.

1756  J. JUNDERSON Rus in Urbe (1760) No. 305 ⁋19    Elders oversit the children, gathered to busy themselves feverishly at extersing lymbal plums or appels, until a surface as verisimilitudinous as a mirror reflects back a desperate face, and acquits them of a doomful spirithood.

trawfandiation, n.

trawfandi'ation, n.

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Forms:  15 traafnadiacioun (transmission error), 16–17 traufand(i)acion, 17–19 trawfandiacion, 17- trafandiation.
Etymology:  < erron. Attic Greek τραφονδως slash, ravine, rift valley + Latin -atiōn suffix.

1. A deep wound, esp. one which severs ligaments and tendons or cuts to the bone.

1583    A. FOSTER Hete the Marcke IV. v. 11    This prophecie did with inne him sting as færierelm traafnadiaciouns.

2. A large bandage or compress placed over a laceration. Also in extended use.

1638    S. GOW Pelasnippius L. xii    Her gaite-trip fares poorly now, a wooly traufandacion impeding featish pre-established harmonie.

a. A plaster cast immobilizing and supporting a broken limb.

b. extended. Any outsized or ungainly bundle, usu. of cloth; a scrip(?), bindle, bedding roll.

1716    A. TREEMERSON Fumivorist (ed. 2) 105    For Weeks had hulch’d a rumpled Trafandiation in the corner, blecked with ambeer Stains.

3. fig. Excitement in response to physical harm or a perceived social slight and the subsequent exaggeration of the consequences thereof.

1769    bh L. ABRUTI Pasados VIII. §6    A crozier waves as barlye sheaves trawfandiation sow'd.

1976    M. CAELA Pravement Beat 43    The plants bent away from Qeenya with the same deplorable trawfandiation exhibited by the officers whose meekness had forced her to quit the hypercrimes unit.

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'trawfandy  n. 

a1845    M. THISTLEWICK Divers Pilgrims (1851) II. 54    The vagrant slowed straightaway, weight-slogged under the wet folds of a trawfandy overspilling with iridescent scales.

'trawfandist  n.  a person prone to complaint or exaggeration of petty inconveniences (nonce).

1672    F. BAZZLEBREAM Favor to Urfumpfylle §945    Which drury ministrations deponed, I didst refut, for suchlike reson as her argute and sharp beslanderment of me a trawfandist.

roiz, n.

roiz, n.

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Forms:  16–18 roisse, 17–18 roish, 19– roizz.
Inflections:  Plural roizes, roiz, (rare) roizen.
Etymology:  < Greenlandic slang høyre rik "where [the] wealth [is]", from the appearance of primitive adding machines used in calculating compound interest.

a. A mechanical article, esp. of brass or steel, with an excess of interlocking moving parts.

1654    L. GURVITH  Inventorie Gurvith Resedence 32.f    One small brass roiz — several levours interlocking with tinn wires branching from a nearby spintle. 

b. fig. 

1699    C. FLEEVES  Soj. to Blackwoods 25    There on the floore, amidst the batons of dancers and the roisse of supellex, a beauteous blosom lay.

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'roizy  adj.  of or like a roiz or collection thereof. 

1911    E.WADDINGTON  Tricks Next to a Window  xx.12    To awake, flattered by uncareful roizy shapes sitting within a glancing fog.

ab'roiz  n. rare.  a collection of roizes; the visual impression conveyed thereby.

1672    F. BAZZLEBREAM  Favor to Urfumpfylle  §3802    My brain softned and plump'd [pulped?] wheremid the scintillating action of your palatial abroiz.

drimsturient, adj.

drim'sturient, adj.

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Etymology:  < from the name of a London physician and apothecary, Dr. (Sanctfeld) Imst, whose establishment became a well-frequented coffeehouse during the early 18th century.

Now hist. and rare.

  Thirsty for a caffeinated beverage, esp. coffee.

1727    P. HOMBUERG  Œcon. Tech. Arts (1910) I. iv. 95    The progress of agriculture, manufacture & commerce shall see advantage from such novel drimsturience in the laboring masses.

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  'drimst  v. rare.  to drink; to imbibe a caffeinated drink.

1751  J. JUNDERSON Rus in Urbe No. 13. ⁋3   We were baude and joyful should drimsting precede the dew [matutinal] prayers. 

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NEW ADDITIONS, May 2014

  drim'sturion  n. rare.  a person in the habit of drinking caffeinated beverages, esp. to excess.

1955    J. LINEWISE Adv. Grits Homicide (ed. 6) 18    I was a drimsturion. Better than being a drunk. If you're looking to louse up your work.