dunch - Deaf... I have no doubt that dunch is Anglo-Saxon... It ought not to be forgotten that many words are... being arrested by our etymologists in the present advancing age of investigation. ~ James Jenning's Dialect of Somersetshire, 1869
To answer your question, Kveto, no I don't.
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Words We Don't Use
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Rowan
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dowsabell - A common name in sixteenth-century powetry for a sweetheart, especially for an unsophisticated country girl. ~ Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
The name means "sweet and beautiful," from French douce et belle. ~ John Phin's Shakespeare Cyclopœdia and New Glossary, 1902
The name means "sweet and beautiful," from French douce et belle. ~ John Phin's Shakespeare Cyclopœdia and New Glossary, 1902
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Rowan
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wamble - To rumble, as when the intestines are distented with wind; generally spoken of the stomach. ~ William Toone's Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete Words, 1832
To turn and twist the body, roll or wriggle about, roll over and over; also with about, over, [and] through. To roll about in walking; to go with an unsteady gait. ~ Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928
To turn and twist the body, roll or wriggle about, roll over and over; also with about, over, [and] through. To roll about in walking; to go with an unsteady gait. ~ Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928
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Rowan
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gizzen - To grin audibly. ~ C. Clough Robinson's Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire, 1876
Gizzum - the mouth. ~ Thomas Darlington's Folk-Speech of South Cheshire, 1887
stale drunk - a man is said to be stale drunk when he has been drunk overnight and has doctored himself with stimulants a little too much in the morning [and] tried too many of the "hairs of the dog that bit him." If this state of things is long continued, it is often called "same old drunk." ~ John Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
anabrochismus - An operation for removing the eyelashes by means of a hair knotted around them. ~ Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
Gizzum - the mouth. ~ Thomas Darlington's Folk-Speech of South Cheshire, 1887
stale drunk - a man is said to be stale drunk when he has been drunk overnight and has doctored himself with stimulants a little too much in the morning [and] tried too many of the "hairs of the dog that bit him." If this state of things is long continued, it is often called "same old drunk." ~ John Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
anabrochismus - An operation for removing the eyelashes by means of a hair knotted around them. ~ Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
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