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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
golden ager, graybeard, (old) buffer, old buzzard, (old) coot, (old) crony, (old)
geezer, oldster, old-thing, old timer, relic, relict, senescent, senex, senior, Silurian
, snowbird, twichild, vieillard, vieux/vieil, vir magno jam natu Undesirable, bad, ...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
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The Chambers Dictionary
[Late OE twiges, from twiga, twiwa, titwa twice, with adverbial genitive ending]
twichild twi 'child, (now dialect) n a person in his or her second childhood, [twi-!
twiddle twid'l, vt to twirl idly: to finger idly, play with; to rotate. — vi to-twirl; to trifle
with ...
... The visitation of a higher Power, And turn away its edge. But as thou canst not,
Encumbered with a twichild man, pursue Thy purpose, it must of necessity Be laid
aside, at least till death remove The impediment not else removable. So be it.
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A Glossary of the Cotswold (Gloucestershire) Dialect
TWICHILD. The childish imbecility of age : Twice and child. TWINK. The chaffinch
: Wine, Welsh ; Winke, Austrian, all derived from the note of the bird. TWISSLE. To
turn about rapidly. TWITCH. To touch ; the W intrusive. TYNING. An enclosure ...
Richard Webster Huntley, 1868
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A glossary of provincial words used in Herefordshire and ...
It is also used in Norfolk and Suffolk : Forby and Moor in v., and in
Gloucestershire. Tusw is a wisp or bunch in Welsh. Twichild, adj. doting, in
second childhood. This word is pronounced twitchel in Cheshire, where it has a
similar meaning.
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 1839
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Select Letters on the English Nation, etc
BEFORE your feet sits Britannia become twichild, playing with the cap of folly,
which she' mistakes for that of liberty. * BEHIND you in a nitch stands the figure of
one of the kings of England made of wax. ON the left hand, a little retired, parents
...
Battista ANGELONI (pseud. [i.e. John Shebbeare.]), 1763
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ...
Suckling. a. Excessive fondness Dryden. DOTAL, a. [dotalis, Lat] Relating to the
portion of a woman ; constituting her portion. Garth. DOTARD, t. [from dote.] A
man whose age has impaired his intellects; a twichild. Spenser, * DO'TAKDLY.
ad.
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The Modern Spectator, or, Wallis's minor magazine
It is him that treats the follies of the Dandizette, and the monkeyism of the Dandy,
with reprehension : and rest assured, old men seeking after young wives, with
twichild insanity, and young women basking their lovely sunshine on old men, ...
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The Church of England quarterly review
... they have imbibed the very spirit of twichild imbecility which, in those ignorant,
dreamy, monkish times, stole over and well-nigh swamped the Church, and
which they give vent to in the reprint of lying legends, which they themselves
have not ...
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English Language Word Builder
... TRIHEDRAI TWICHILD ULTRALOW UNBOUGHT UNDEFIDE UNFAULTY
UNGUILTY UNPRETTY UNSOLEMN PLEASETH POLYTENE POSTGAME
PRECEESE PRESCUTA PROTRADE PURBLIND REBOUGHT REGROUND
RESPRANG ...
