A Supplement to the Two Volumes of the Second Edition of the Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, Terms, and Nursery Rhymes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...WITH HIS OWN BREAD AND BUTTER; to outrage his patron (benefactor); seems, toe qua& Telle; wijs hie's houw"n bereed; end bot t'eer; q-. e. have done with all bad languages, show that respect has taken its place in you, have done with the part of the fool, have done for good and all; and thus as a wholesome advice to some display of thoughtless intemperance of speech towards one on whom the other depended for his bread. Toe, done with, ended; quae, kwae, kwaed, quaed, bad; relle, the part. pres. of reWen, to'fail at, to abuse, to rattle away; toys, show, demonstrate; hie, here; 's, is; houw, respect; '-, in; bereed, bereyd, ready, prepared; end, finish; bot, fool, blockhead; t'ecr, from henceforward. The expression is homely, but well-known to all classes with us; in literal import nonsense. The dutch term for bread and butter is boter-am (ham); also boterbrood. Hereed, sounds bread; end, and. Butt, as in the expression he was the butt of the company, the fool or jest of the rest is, I suspect the above bot (fool) object of fun, ridicule. Dormer; the ellipsis of dormer-window, as the window above the other, the toy window or range of upper windows; seems, d'hooer me'r; q. e. the higher of the others there; the upper of those that are there in the same building (front); and thus the upper windows of all in a house; hooer, higher, upper, the comparative of hoa, hoogh; m.' mee, mede, with; V, er, there. Bailey has the word, but no etymology; Johnson confounds it with dormant; and has also made a like mistake in regard to Dormouse; which he says is as dornAo, I sleep, and mouse; and what mouse does not? The word seems to be as, die hoore mos; q. e. for this moss is required; in reference to its nest or dwelling. The dormouse, is of the squirrel, not ...