wanion

plural wanions · alternative wannion · alternative wenion

1. obsoleteThe wane of the moon.
2. obsoleteCurse.

   S’foote what are these that pynch me? Goblins? A wanion on the Elues for me […]

   1617, John Davies, “It’s a mad world my Maisters. And a merry world my Mistrisses”, in Wits Bedlam, London

3. archaicVengeance (in the phrases in a wanion, with a wanion, “with a vengeance”).

   “Now, hold thy tongue, with a wanion” said the monk; […]

   1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume I (The Betrothed), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 173

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   And yet notwithstanding we must haue these goodly pageants played vpon the sabaoth day (in a wanion) because there are no mo daies in the week.

   1583, Philip Stubbs, “A fearfull Iudgement of GOD, shewed at the Theaters”, in The Anatomie of Abuses, London: Richard Jones

   By the maſſe I thinke your maſter had more need knock you about the eares, for playing the Iackes vvith him, ther’s your ten pounds, tell it out with a vvanion, and take it for your pains.

   1606, [Thomas Heywood], The Second Part of, If You Know Not Me, You Know No Bodie. […], London: […] [Thomas Purfoot] for Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, signature D3, verso

   Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I’ll fetch thee with a wanion.

   c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

   For ill advised of a rock, The ship with such a wannion strook;

   1672, John Phillips, Maronides, or, Virgil travestie, London: Nathanael Brooks, Book 5, p. 41

   I stood at our door in Cornhill, looked at him, he at me indeed; spake to him, but he not to me, not a word. Marry gup, thought I, with a wanion!

   2014, original 1975, Thomas Dekker, Jonathan Gil Harris, The Shoemaker's Holiday, page 21