† epithetishadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Inclined to the use of epithets.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > verbose > abounding in or using many epithets
epithetica1764
epithetish1777
epitheted1808
epithetical1837
adjectival1899
1777 J. Wolcot in R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. (1826) I. 49 You were too epithetish.
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adj.1777- scare seven bells out of a person
- scare sleep
- scare someone's daylights out
- scare tactic
- scare the daylight out of
- scare the daylights out of
- scare the lights out of
- scare the lights out of a person
- scare the lights out of a thing
- scare the liver and lights out of
- scare the liver and lights out of a person
- scare the liver and lights out of a thing
- scare the living daylight out of
- scare the living daylights out of
- scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of
- scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of a person
- scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of a thing
- scare the pants off
- scare the pants off a person
- scare up
- scare — bells out of
- scare-babe
- scare-bairn
- scare-bear
- scare-beggar