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More about applesauce
Applesauce is a straightforward compound noun. The original sense is first recorded in the 17th century. The American slang term first appears in Ring Lardner (1885鈥�1933) and then in the novel Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O鈥橦ara (1905鈥�70).
how is applesauce used?
Nonsense! Fiddlesticks! Baloney! Phoo! Poo! Poppycock! Bah! Twaddle! Don’t be silly! My eye! In your hat! That’s pure applesauce!
The opinion offers several new candidates for a master list of Scalia鈥檚 best turns-of-phrase, which should be published as a book as far as we are concerned. One example: the majority鈥檚 reasoning? 鈥淧ure applesauce,鈥� he wrote.
More about gnathonic
The English adjective gnathonic comes from Latin 驳苍补迟丑艒苍颈肠耻蝉, an adjective derivative of 骋苍补迟丑艒 (inflectional stem 骋苍补迟丑艒n-), the name of a sycophant and parasite in Eunuchus, a comedy by the Latin playwright Terence (Publius Terentius Afer, c190鈥揷159 b.c.). Terence also coined the derivative plural noun 骋苍补迟丑艒nic墨 鈥渄isciples of Gnatho鈥� as a comic general term for sycophants and parasites. Gnathonic entered English in the 17th century.
how is gnathonic used?
That Jack’s is somewhat of a gnathonic and parasitic soul, or stomach, all Bideford apple-women know …
… Pandarus is not unlike familiar gnathonic persons who attach themselves to their betters, as he does both in his defense of Paris ad in his eagerness to satisfy the appetities [sic] of his prince.
blellum
noun
Scot. Obsolete. an idle, indiscreet talker.
More about blellum
Not only does blellum not have an etymology, it has very few citations. One of which is in the poem Tam o鈥橲hanter (1790) by Robert Burns (1759鈥�96); so it鈥檚 a keeper.
how is blellum used?
A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum …
How was ye to foresee that Mr. Manners was a blellum?