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... diminutive sense of a manikin , kilderkin , pipkin , lambkin , jerkin , minikin ( little minion ) , or doitkin . Appended to baptismal names it became very familiar . " A litul soth Sermun " says- " Nor those prude yongemen That loveth ...
... diminutive sense of a manikin , kilderkin , pipkin , lambkin , jerkin , minikin ( little minion ) , or doitkin . Appended to baptismal names it became very familiar . " A litul soth Sermun " says- " Nor those prude yongemen That loveth ...
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... . In the same way Sander - cock is a diminutive of Sander , Lay - cock of Lawrence , Luccock of Luke , Pidcock and Peacock of Peter , Maycock and Mycock of Matthew , Jeff - cock of THE PET - NAME EPOCH IN ENGLAND . 15.
... . In the same way Sander - cock is a diminutive of Sander , Lay - cock of Lawrence , Luccock of Luke , Pidcock and Peacock of Peter , Maycock and Mycock of Matthew , Jeff - cock of THE PET - NAME EPOCH IN ENGLAND . 15.
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... diminutive is never seen in the seventeenth century ; and yet we have many evidences of its use in the beginning of the sixteenth . The English Bible , with its tendency to require the full name as a matter of reverence , while it ...
... diminutive is never seen in the seventeenth century ; and yet we have many evidences of its use in the beginning of the sixteenth . The English Bible , with its tendency to require the full name as a matter of reverence , while it ...
Page 17
... diminutive , to judge from the Paris Directory , must have been enormously popular with our neighbours . Our connection with Normandy and France generally brought the fashion to the Eng- lish Court , and in habits of this kind the ...
... diminutive , to judge from the Paris Directory , must have been enormously popular with our neighbours . Our connection with Normandy and France generally brought the fashion to the Eng- lish Court , and in habits of this kind the ...
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... diminutive of the once common Fulke . the nick forms : " I Henry VIII . To Fygge the taborer , 6a . " - Churchwarden's Books of Kingston - on - Thames , Brand's “ Pop . Ant . , " i . 147 . The London Directory has all the forms and ...
... diminutive of the once common Fulke . the nick forms : " I Henry VIII . To Fygge the taborer , 6a . " - Churchwarden's Books of Kingston - on - Thames , Brand's “ Pop . Ant . , " i . 147 . The London Directory has all the forms and ...
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