Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)/2021

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    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 2, chapter 19
      She flitted through the rooms, like a good spirit, dispatched from the celestial kingdom, to illumine our dark hour with alien splendor.

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This is an interesting one. But the transcription of the first example is wrong: if you look at the scan[11], you can see that it's actually i’ feggs. So the i can't be the word I. The second example is I’feggs, but this is at the start of a sentence, so it's consistent with the basic form being i’feggs. I found a third example of the term[12] (download the "colour composite text file" to see the scan). In this case it's actually printed as I feggs (and not at the start of a sentence), but I suspect this is an error, similar to the way that iwis was often erroneously printed as I wis. (In fact, i’feggs seems to have been used in exactly the same way as iwis, and with exactly the same meaning. I can't decide if this is just a weird coincidence, or if i’feggs could possibly be a mutant form of iwis.) --Zundark (talk) 09:35, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I had a look in my old Chambers dictionary, and found the interjection fegs, with the definition “in faith, truly”. So that is very likely what this feggs is, just spelt differently. The i’ is presumably for in (even if that doesn’t quite seem to make sense). --Zundark (talk) 12:44, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And see also the entry for fegs in Wright (Vol.II, p325). It's a long entry, so I won't quote it here, but it mentions that feggs is a spelling used in Scotland, and it also mentions the expression i’ fegs. --Zundark (talk) 14:57, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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  • XLR: a type of microphone (apparently short for "X connector, locking connector, rubber boot")

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  • Zaklohpakap: a Mayan language (obsolete name?), possibly what is now called Mamaindê
  1. ^ Laflamme, Marc, Gehling, James (2018 May 1) “Deconstructing an Ediacaran frond: three-dimensional preservation of Arborea from Ediacara, South Australia”, in Journal of Paleontology‎[30], volume 92, number 3, →DOI, retrieved 21 March 2021, pages 323–335
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