Seed Words for Etymology of Words
ETYMOLOGY PHRASES ORIGINS HISTORIES IDIOMS SADINYS PHRASES OTHER EXPRESSIONS OFTEN FASCINATING ETYMOLOGIES INDIVIDUAL WORDS THEMSELVES SELECTION WELL-KNOWN EXPRESSIONS BEING BREAK RELAX TENSE FORMAL ATMOSPHERE SOCIAL SITUATION START ENDEAVOR GENERAL SENSE ENGLISH THROUGH BYRON'S LINES PEOPLE BRITISH BEYOND PRICE YOU'VE BROKEN THEIR CONFOUNDED QUESTION METAPHORICALLY RIVER EARLY SPRING BREAK WOULD ALLOW BOATS MARKING BEGINNING SEASON'S ACTIVITY AFTER WINTER FREEZE EXPRESSION CONNECTED START ENTERPRISE ABOUR YEARS WHILE SHINES ADVANTAGE FAVORABLE CIRCUMSTANCES EXPRESSION REFERS PRODUCTION DRIED GRASS WARMTH REQUIRED GRASS NOTORIOUSLY UNPREDICTABLE CLOUDY LATER MESSAGE APHORISM CLEAR EXPRESSION DATES CENTURIES CHANGED LITTLE HEYWOOD INCLUDED FOLLOWING PROUERBES ENGLISHE TONGUE SUNNE SHINTH THROW SOMEONE PUNISH SOMEONE SEVERELY FIGURATIVE PRESUMABLY RULES ORIGINALLY STILL NORMAL USAGE EXPRESSION MEANT IMPOSE MAXIMUM PENALTY CRIMINALS LIKELY IMPRISONMENT NOWADAYS EXPRESSION GENERALLY OFTEN WHERE PUNISHMENT REPRIMAND EXTREME RAINING RAINING TORRENTIALLY FIRST KNOWN RECORD PHRASE JONATHAN SWIFT'S POLITE CONVERSATION QUESTIONABLY WHETHER ORIGINATED PECULIAR HYPERBOLE CENTURIES PREVIOUSLY RICHARD BROME WRITE ENTITLED WHICH CHARACTERS SARPEGO HENCEFORTH WORLD SHALL DUNCES SHALL POLECATS FORTH HATTER UTTERLY INSANE THERE NUMBER THEORIES ABOUT SIMILIE PERHAPS INTRIGUING PLAUSIBLE OFFERED JOURNAL AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION MERCURY MANUFACTURE HATTERS MAKERS WOULD CONTACT POISONOUS METAL UNFORTUNATELY EFFECT EXPOSURE MERCURY POISONING SYMPTOMS WHICH INSANITY FAMOUSLY LEWIS CARROLL WROTE ABOUT HATTER ALICE WONDERLAND THERE LEAST EARLIER REFERENCE EXPRESSION CLOCKMAKER THOMAS HALIBURTON THESE SPEAKERS AMERICAN ENGLISH ANGRY CRAZY HEARD MISUSE EXPRESSION FORMER SENSE WITHOUT RHYME REASON LACKING SENSE JUSTIFICATION RHYME REASON SYNONYMOUS EXPRESSION MEANS WITHOUT REASON ENGLISH USAGE DATES SIXTEENTH CENTURY PHRASE BORROWED FRENCH RAISON LIVES MODERN FRENCH RAISON CROCODILE TEARS HYPOCRITICAL GRIEF PROVERBIAL CROCODILES PERSON DISTRESS CLOSE ENOUGH SNATCH DEVOUR TEARS THEIR VICTIM REFERENCES PROVERBIAL BELIEF FOUND ANCIENT GREEK LATIN LITERATURE ENTITLED VOIAGE TRAVAILE MAUNDEVILLE WRITTEN COKADRILLES THEISE SERPENTES WEPYNGE FABLE FOUND WORKS EARLY ENGLISH WRITERS INCLUDING THOSE SHAKESPEARE BONES ABOUT MATTER SPEAK FRANKLY DIRECTLY EXPRESSION EARLY DIFFICULTY SEEMS EVIDENT ALLUSION ACTUAL OCCURRENCE BONES STEWS WITHOUT BONES WOULD OFFER DIFFICULTY ACCORDINGLY WOULD HESITATION SWALLOWING BONES THROW TOWEL SPONGE SURRENDER ADMIT DEFEAT ORIGINAL THROW SPONGE APPEARS SLANG DICTIONARY REFERENCE SPONGES CLEANSE COMBATANTS' FACES PRIZE FIGHTS CONTESTANT'S MANAGER THROWING SPONGE WOULD SIGNAL ENOUGH SPONGE LONGER REQUIRED RECENT YEARS TOWELS SUBSTITUTED SPONGES FIGHTS CONSEQUENTLY EXPRESSION
Thanks to C. A. Bishop for these words.
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