A Historical Thesaurus of English

[Schwadevivre]

If someone called you bagpudding or bulch would you be happy? You might be if you checked the

Historical Thesaurus of English

You might also want to find out what your bos means when he says that he wants you to do something as yerne or when he calls you ungleawnes

 

[escargot]

That's brilliant, thank you, I'll be whiling away an hour or three later!

 

[OneWingedBird]

I'm quite surprised that the modern use of bondage to mean pervy fun only dates from 1966!

 

[MercuryCrest]

Their definition of "recrudescent" is not the same as the one in an 1883 English dictionary. Hmmmmm.

 

[Schwadevivre]

Their definition of "recrudescent" is not the same as the one in an 1883 English dictionary. Hmmmmm.

I checked and found that the Historical Thesaurus has 2 senses both meaning relapse. Remember that any thesaurus does not define a word, only list its use as a possible synonym; the actual definition is given in the link to the OED at the end of the line.

 

[OneWingedBird]

Their website went down the other night after a denial of service attack by hackers.

In an official statement, police said they were

"completely and utterly dollic, yblen, gemenged, whaped, dodemusyd..."

I'll gt me coat

 

[OneWingedBird]

Quite a fun little read - 15 pairs of words that seem etymologically related but aren't

 

[Frideswide]

Quite a fun little read

lovely! that justifies getting up today all by itself Thank you.