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Page 132
... word was common in Lancashire thirty or forty years ago , and meant a feeble kind of anger , a petulant humour . As other dialectic words that express emotion , it must be referred to a Celtic source . It seems to be compounded of the ...
... word was common in Lancashire thirty or forty years ago , and meant a feeble kind of anger , a petulant humour . As other dialectic words that express emotion , it must be referred to a Celtic source . It seems to be compounded of the ...
Page 169
... word to the tion from the Norse . If it is really of Scandinavian Eastern Counties might seem to suggest a deriva- origin , the English pigle can hardly be other than the Icelandic böggull- a little bag . The word ( v . Cleasby's Icel ...
... word to the tion from the Norse . If it is really of Scandinavian Eastern Counties might seem to suggest a deriva- origin , the English pigle can hardly be other than the Icelandic böggull- a little bag . The word ( v . Cleasby's Icel ...
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... word paralysis . I was the form palesie was a purely French ending , and led to this through Littleton , who , after translating as such it may , not so very unreasonably I think , paralysis , " a disease , & c . , the palsie , the ...
... word paralysis . I was the form palesie was a purely French ending , and led to this through Littleton , who , after translating as such it may , not so very unreasonably I think , paralysis , " a disease , & c . , the palsie , the ...
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