Word origins

• fiddlesticksNonsense! Expresses dismissal or disdain.
• abnegationA denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest.
• lecherA lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
• betakeTo take over to; take across (to); deliver.
• quaestorAn ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.
• outspreadTo spread out; expand; extend.
• mindfullyIn a mindful manner.
• elecampaneA tall Eurasian herb, Inula helenium, whose roots have been used medicinally.
• forlongTo fill with longing.
• wharfageA dock, quay, or pier.
• whirrTo move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
• alarumA danger signal or warning.
• vinousPertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.
• hentTo take hold of, to grasp.
• jambeA leg, of an animal or person.
• unmercifulnot showing mercy
• amayto dismay; confound; be dismayed
• pottleA former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.
• LindowA surname.
• dorterA bedroom or dormitory, especially in a monastery.
• supplicateTo make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
• sophisticalPertaining to a sophist or sophistry.
• AconburyA village in Herefordshire, England.
• appurtenanceThat which appertains to something else; a belonging, accompaniment, adjunct, appendage, attribute, or accessory ; an addition.
• forewarnTo warn in advance.
• couchingThe act of one who couches.
• LiddelA habitational surname.
• forholdTo detain, hold back, or hold up (someone or something); also, to retain or withhold (something).
• frazzleTo fray or wear down, especially at the edges.
• coppeA spider.
• affrightGreat fear, terror, fright.
• HogbenA surname from Middle English.
• VowchurchA village and civil parish (served by Vowchurch (and District) Group Parish Council) in south-west Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3636).
• burgeonA bud, sprout, or shoot.
• abradeTo rub or wear off; erode.
• upholsterTo fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture).
• beathTo bathe (with warm liquid); foment.
• warthA ford.
• grampusA killer whale (Orcinus orca).
• togeA toga.
• besmirchTo make dirty.
• quernstoneEither of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
• castellanA feudal lord with a fortified manor.
• skedaddleTo move or run away quickly.
• thigTo solicit or receive, usually by begging; ask as alms.
• leprousOf or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.
• twayTwo.
• blancmangeA simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.
• libidinousHaving lustful desires; characterized by lewdness.
• NottageA suburb of Porthcawl, Bridgend borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SS8178).
• noisomeMorally hurtful or noxious.
• intoxicateTo stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
• curtseyA small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses the shin of one leg behind the calf of her other leg and briefly bends her knees to lower her body in deference.
• renayTo renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.
• GrossetesteA surname from Middle English.
• despoilTo plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
• vaingloriousPossessing excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.
• embezzleTo steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
• cleyA claw.
• archbishopricThe rank or office of an archbishop.
• mayoressA female mayor.
• KilhamA village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0664).
• avoirdupoisThe official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300.
• rhetoricianAn expert or student of rhetoric.
• yeanTo give birth to.
• gonfalonA standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.
• onlayTo lay or place something on a surface.
• gyrateTo revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
• posternA back door or gate, side entrance, or other entrance distinct from the main one, especially one that is private or not obvious.
• JennettA surname originating as a patronymic.
• needinessThe characteristic of being needy.
• lathingInvitation.
• leonineOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike.
• AttridgeA surname.
• erightTo invest with a right.
• frowardDisobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
• lavantA shallow or more or less intermittent spring, or the stream of water (bourne) which feeds and springs forth from such a spring.
• bodgeTo do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
• laugherOne who laughs.
• prateTalk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
• whithersoeverTo what place soever; wherever.
• foundressA female founder (“one who founds or establishes”).
• quiltmakerA maker of quilts.
• needlerOne who needles (someone else).
• MickleoverA large suburban village and ward on the west side of the City of Derby, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3034).
• goatherdA person who herds, tends goats.
• porringerA small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.
• eurusThe east wind.
• widenessThe state or quality of being wide.
• habitudeThe essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
• imbibitionThe act of imbibing.
• coomsoot, smut
• skulkA group of foxes.
• whoredomThe state of being a whore, prostitution; sexual indulgence, fornication.
• sossAnything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
• benisonA blessing; benediction.
• suasionThe act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
• impenitentNot penitent; specifically (Christianity), not repenting of one's sins; unrepentant.
• overstretchTo stretch too far.
• turmA group of people, especially a military unit of cavalrymen.