The Old Norse-Icelandic Metaphorical Trope Ofljóst.
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- Neophilologus, 2025, v. 109, n. 2, p. 253, doi. 10.1007/s11061-025-09835-1
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Works by Sayers, William
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Playing the Dozens: Etymology Reconsidered.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2025, v. 38, n. 1, p. 160, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2023.2292284
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- Article
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Dogwood, Whippletree, and Swingletree: Cross-Referential Etymologies.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2025, v. 38, n. 1, p. 157, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2023.2263508
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- Article
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Twee 'Dainty, Quaint, Precious, mawkish'.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2024, v. 37, n. 4, p. 483, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2023.2242438
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- Article
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Cosmic Egg and Infant Demiurge: Antecedents of McCarthy's Judge Holden (Blood Meridian).
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2024, v. 37, n. 3, p. 450, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2023.2204365
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- Article
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Dander and Dandruff: Etymologies.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2024, v. 37, n. 3, p. 319, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2022.2156845
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Snoopy's Pedigree: The Etymology of Beagle.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2024, v. 37, n. 2, p. 157, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2021.1940817
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"It Gives Me the Willies".
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2024, v. 37, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2022.2102965
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The Origin of the Name Beowulf in a Gutnish *baþolfr "Battle-Wolf".
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- 2024
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- Poetry Review
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The Origin of Faggot "Homosexual" and Its Historical Tie to Heresy.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2024, v. 37, n. 1, p. 4, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2022.2029692
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Drag and Drag Queen: Speculations on Origins.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2023, v. 36, n. 3, p. 309, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2021.2003178
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The Etymology of Dyke and Bull-dyke.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2023, v. 36, n. 3, p. 307, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2021.1980717
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- Article
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Sixteenth to Eighteenth-Century Underclass Slang: autem mort "Married Woman".
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2023, v. 36, n. 2, p. 172, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2021.1917335
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Sleaze: An Etymology and History.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2023, v. 36, n. 2, p. 155, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2021.1886899
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The Etymology of Bargain and Its Background in Early Medieval Northwest European Trade.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2023, v. 36, n. 1, p. 7, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1860735
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Rank/range and chain mail: Two Comparable Etymologies, with a Note on mesh.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2023, v. 36, n. 1, p. 3, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1833297
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- Article
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Estovers: Customary Communal Rights to Natural Resources in Rural England.
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- 2022
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- Book Review
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Public Cries in the Medieval Languages of Britain: Haro! Havoc!
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2022, v. 35, n. 2, p. 98, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1779644
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The Chromatics of the Blues.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2022, v. 35, n. 2, p. 89, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1740643
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- Article
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Honky-Tonk: Lexicogenesis and Etymology.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2022, v. 35, n. 1, p. 12, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1703627
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- Article
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Terms of Disarray: The Etymologies of Harum-Scarum, Helter-Skelter, and Pell-Mell.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2022, v. 35, n. 1, p. 9, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1670127
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The etymology of jazz--one more time.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2021, v. 34, n. 4, p. 267, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1716678
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- Article
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Exotic, Erotic: The Etymology of Hootchy-kootchy.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2021, v. 34, n. 3, p. 177, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1683710
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Skulduggery: Etymology.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2021, v. 34, n. 3, p. 180, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1616528
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- Publication type:
- Article
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Fiddle-faddle and Flibbertigibbet: Etymologies.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2021, v. 34, n. 2, p. 93, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1649114
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Curmudgeon, an Etymology.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2021, v. 34, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1636636
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A Dicey Pair of Etymologies: Minx "Saucy Girl" and Grifter "Thief, Swindler".
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2020, v. 33, n. 4, p. 324, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1600398
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The Etymologies of Old English Bædling "Sodomite" and Modern English Bad.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2020, v. 33, n. 1, p. 9, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2019.1573132
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The Etymology of English Hog.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2020, v. 33, n. 1, p. 12, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2018.1527204
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Referential Instability in the Historical Designations of Domestic and Game Animals in Britain: The Examples of Teg "Yearling Sheep" and Stag "Male of the Red Deer".
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2019, v. 32, n. 4, p. 214, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2018.1548961
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The Etymology of English boy.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2019, v. 32, n. 2, p. 69, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2018.1504671
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The origin of names for the Skimmington ride: Public shaming and communal entertainment in rural Britain.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2019, v. 32, n. 2, p. 71, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2018.1489211
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The etymologies of the English polysemes clout and cuff.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2019, v. 32, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2018.1459171
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Hwæt: The first word of the Beowulf poem revisited.
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- 2018
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- Publication type:
- Poetry Review
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Of Blind Mice, Bald Mice, and Bawkie-Birds: Euphemism and Early Names for the Bat.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2018, v. 31, n. 2, p. 69, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2017.1375398
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A Hiberno-Norse Etymology for English Fetch : “Apparition of a Living Person”.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2017, v. 30, n. 4, p. 205, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2017.1336073
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Isherwood’s Kuno von Pregnitz ( Mr. Norris Changes Trains ) and the Premise of Golding’s The Lord of the Flies.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2017, v. 30, n. 4, p. 255, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2017.1311780
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Lexicography and Historical Urban Popular Speech: Slum, Bloke, Slut, Slattern.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2017, v. 30, n. 1, p. 32, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2016.1256755
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- Article
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“Coalmansbell” ( Finnegans Wake , 278.11): Word, Flesh, and Ink.
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- 2016
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- Publication type:
- Literary Criticism
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Gower’s “So nyh the weder thei wol love” ( Confessio Amantis , 5, 7048).
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- 2015
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- Publication type:
- Poetry Review
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Cant, Rant, Gibberish, and Jargon.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2015, v. 28, n. 1, p. 1, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2015.1038967
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- Article
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Pun, Quibble, Carwitchet, Clench.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2014, v. 27, n. 2, p. 55, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2014.912129
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Kitty-Corners.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2013, v. 26, n. 3, p. 161, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2013.805981
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A Source for Dr. Johnson's Self-Referential Entry “Lexicographer”.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2013, v. 26, n. 1, p. 17, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2013.749175
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Pigs and Whistles.
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- ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes & Reviews, 2012, v. 25, n. 2, p. 75, doi. 10.1080/0895769X.2012.669339
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Names for the Badger in Multilingual Medieval Britain.
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- 2009
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- Publication type:
- Essay
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An Early Set of Beekeeping Words in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English.
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- 2009
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- Publication type:
- Essay
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Anglo-Norman and Middle English Terminology for Spindle Whorls.
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- 2008
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- Publication type:
- Essay
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The Old English Antecedents of "ferry" and "wherry."
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- 2007
- By:
- Publication type:
- Literary Criticism
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"Exeter Book" Riddle 17 and the L-Rune: British *"lester" "vessel, oat-straw hive"?
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- 2006
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- Publication type:
- Essay