The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe And More Especially of the English And Lowland Scotch, And Their Slang, Cant, And Colloquial Dialects
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— Uisge, water; preach, preachan, a kite, a hawk, any ravenous bird ; also, to snatch, to claw ; whence uisge-preach, the water-hawk, abbre- viated into " os-prey." OUCHE, OWCHE.— A jewel ; obso- lete, except in the Authorized Version of the Bible.
Your brooches, pearls, and owches.
. Shakspeake, Henry IV. Part II..
What gold I have, pearls, bracelets, rings, or ouches, Or what she can desire.
Beaumont and Fletcher.
Oucher, a maker of ouches, a jeweller.
Ouchers, skynners and cutlers.
Cock Core...ll's Bote.— Weight.
A jewel, brooch, spangle or necklace, but which is its primary signification cannot be known till its etymology shall be found, which is at present very uncertain. Mr. Tyrrwhit in his Glossary to Chaucer inclines to think that the true word is nouche, from the Italian nocchia, which means any kind of bosse, also a clasp or buckle. — Nabes.
French oche or hoche, a notch. — Woeces- teb.
The French word hoche, on which Dr. Worcester relies, is from hocher, to jog, to wag, to shake, whence the name of the beautiful bird, the wag-tail, hoche-queue.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
— Uisge, water; preach, preachan, a kite, a hawk, any ravenous bird ; also, to snatch, to claw ; whence uisge-preach, the water-hawk, abbre- viated into " os-prey." OUCHE, OWCHE.— A jewel ; obso- lete, except in the Authorized Version of the Bible.
Your brooches, pearls, and owches.
. Shakspeake, Henry IV. Part II..
What gold I have, pearls, bracelets, rings, or ouches, Or what she can desire.
Beaumont and Fletcher.
Oucher, a maker of ouches, a jeweller.
Ouchers, skynners and cutlers.
Cock Core...ll's Bote.— Weight.
A jewel, brooch, spangle or necklace, but which is its primary signification cannot be known till its etymology shall be found, which is at present very uncertain. Mr. Tyrrwhit in his Glossary to Chaucer inclines to think that the true word is nouche, from the Italian nocchia, which means any kind of bosse, also a clasp or buckle. — Nabes.
French oche or hoche, a notch. — Woeces- teb.
The French word hoche, on which Dr. Worcester relies, is from hocher, to jog, to wag, to shake, whence the name of the beautiful bird, the wag-tail, hoche-queue.
What to read after The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe And More Especially of the English And Lowland Scotch, And Their Slang, Cant, And Colloquial Dialects?
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