Tillyfally

A word used formerly when anything said was rejected as triffling or impertenant.

"Tillyfally, sir John, never tell me; your ancient swaggerer comes not in my doors."

-Shakespeare

Disciplinarian

A follower of the presbyterian sect, so called for their perpetual clamor about discipline.

Leer

A laboured cast of countenance.

"Damn with faint praise, concede with civil leer.

-Pope

Confident

Bold to a vice; elated with false opinion of his own excellencies; impudent.

Farce

A dramatick representation written without regularity, and stuffed with wild and ludicrous conceits.

Addle

Originally applied to eggs, and signifying such as produce nothing, but grow rotten under the hen; thence transferred to brains that produce nothing.

"After so much solitariness, fasting, or long sickness, their brains were addle, and their bellies as empty of meat as their heads of wit"

-Burten, On Meloncholy

Shrew

A peevish, malignant, clamorous, spiteful, vexatious, turbulent woman. (It appears in Robert of Gloucester, that this word signified anciently any one perverse or obstinate of either sex.)

"Every one of them, who is a shrew in domestik life, is now become a scold in politiks."

-Addison, Freeholder.

Shrewmouse

A mouse of which the bite is generally supposed to be venomous, and to which vulgar tradition assigns such malignity, that she is said to lame the foot over which she runs. I am informed that all these reports are calumnious, and that her feet and teeth are equally harmless with those of any other little mouse. Our ancestors however looked on her with such terrour, that they are supposed to have given her name to a scolding women, whom for her venom they call a shrew.

Roach

A roach is a fish of no great reputation for his dainty taste: his spawn is accounted much better than any other part of him: he is accounted the water sheep, for his simplicity and foolishness.

Jade

A sorry woman. A word of contempt noting sometimes age, but generally vice.

A young woman: in irony and slight contempt.

"You see now and then some handsome young jades among them: the sluts have very often white teeth and black eyes."

-Addison

Job

A low word now much in use... A low mean lucrative busy affair. Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work.

"No cheek is known to blush, nor heart to throb, Save when they lose a question, or a job."

-Pope

Abode

To foretoken or foreshow; to be a prognostic, to be ominous. It is taken, with its derivatives, in the sense either of good or ill.

Anticipation

Opinion implanted before the reasons of that opinion can be known.

Asperse

Bespatter with censure or calumny.

Fribbler

A Trifler. One who professes rapture for the woman, and dreads her consent.

Lowthoughted

Having the thoughts with-held from sublime or heavenly meditations; mean of sentiment; narrow mindedness.

Barrator

A wrangler, and encourager of lawsuits.

"Will it not reflect as much on thy character, Nic, to turn barrator in thy old days, a stirrer up of quarrels amongst thy neighbors." -Arbuthnot