Continuing the list of olde archaic words for your enjoyment and enlightenment:
Groaning-cheese - Cheese provided on the occasion of child-birth. It was the practice to cut the groaning-cheese in the middle, and by degrees to form it into a large kind of ring, through which the child was passed on the day of christening.
Rat-rhyme - To repeat from memory without attaching any meaning to the words; anything repeated by rote. The fanciful idea that rats where commonly rhymed to death in Ireland arose probably from some metrical charm or incantation used there for that purpose.
Snapper-back - in foot-ball, a center rusher . . . Neither the snapper-back nor his opponent can take the ball out with the hand until it touches a third man.
Ruckle - A loose heap or pile; figuratively, a ruckle of bones, a very lean person.
Fowerty-frappers - Fireworks of any kind.
Simmiting - An inclination or fondness for a person of the opposite sex; related to simmity, to look after admiringly, to pay attention to.
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