Gallimaufry: A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing VocabularyOxford University Press, 2006 - 272 sider When did you last hear someone refer to the wireless? What was the original paraphernalia? Would you wear a billycock? Language is always changing, and in Gallimaufry: A Hodge-Podge of Words Vanishing from Our Vocabulary Michael Quinion has gathered together some fascinating examples of words and meanings which have vanished from our language. Sometimes a word is lost when the thing it describes becomes obsolete, sometimes it survives in a figurative sense while the original meaning is lost, and sometimes it simply gives way to a more popular alternative. The story of these and many other words opens a window into the lives of past speakers of the English language. |
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... Latin cadere , to fall ) ; exsufflicate ( de- scribing language that is windy or overblown , from Latin exsufflare , to blow out or away ) ; forgetive ( possibly from forge and perhaps meaning that a person is capable of inventive ...
... Latin cadere , to fall ) ; exsufflicate ( de- scribing language that is windy or overblown , from Latin exsufflare , to blow out or away ) ; forgetive ( possibly from forge and perhaps meaning that a person is capable of inventive ...
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... Latin fumus , smoke ) is known to have been used only once , by Robert Boyle in his Sceptical Chymist of 1680 ; a shapesmith was " one who undertakes to improve the form of the body " , a little gem of misleading humorous definition for ...
... Latin fumus , smoke ) is known to have been used only once , by Robert Boyle in his Sceptical Chymist of 1680 ; a shapesmith was " one who undertakes to improve the form of the body " , a little gem of misleading humorous definition for ...
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... Latin inganno , fraud ) ; laqueary ( armed with a noose to entangle his opponent , like a Roman gladiator , from Latin laqueus , noose ) ; nasicornous ( having a horn on the nose , from Latin nāsus , nose + cornu , horn ) ; paleous ( of ...
... Latin inganno , fraud ) ; laqueary ( armed with a noose to entangle his opponent , like a Roman gladiator , from Latin laqueus , noose ) ; nasicornous ( having a horn on the nose , from Latin nāsus , nose + cornu , horn ) ; paleous ( of ...
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