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slubberdegullion
Aug. 3rd, 2018 08:05 amslubberdegullion (sluhb-er-de-GUHL-ee-uhn) - n., (obs.) a filthy, slobbering person; a worthless person.
Sometimes with connotation of drunkard. In use from around 1610 to the late 19th century, later on as English dialect, but now shows up in historical settings. The first half of the coinage is from either English slobber or its Dutch cognate slubber, but the second half is obscure: it could be an attempt to create pseudo-French or cullion, testicle, which at the time was a term of contempt for a man, and other possibilities have been suggested.
And for your amusement, this discussion of the word has a long passage of obsolete invective, courtesy of Sir Thomas Urquhart.
And that wraps it up for a week of obs. -- back to the regular (i.e. random) mix next week.
---L.
Sometimes with connotation of drunkard. In use from around 1610 to the late 19th century, later on as English dialect, but now shows up in historical settings. The first half of the coinage is from either English slobber or its Dutch cognate slubber, but the second half is obscure: it could be an attempt to create pseudo-French or cullion, testicle, which at the time was a term of contempt for a man, and other possibilities have been suggested.
And for your amusement, this discussion of the word has a long passage of obsolete invective, courtesy of Sir Thomas Urquhart.
And that wraps it up for a week of obs. -- back to the regular (i.e. random) mix next week.
---L.
