fustilarian
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Possibly from fustilugs (“unattractive, grossly overweight person”) + -arian.[1][2]
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fustilarian (plural fustilarians)
- (obsolete, nonce word) A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- Away you scullion, you rampallian, you fustilarian.
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- ^ Shipley, Joseph T. (1955) Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 287
- ^ Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie (2016) Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 203
- ^ Crystal, David (2016) The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 229