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murgeonn.1 Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably related to English regional (northern and midlands) morge , mudge mud, sludge; perhaps ultimately related to Old French, Middle French murgier , murgiere , murgiz , meurgier pile of stones, especially as resulting from extraction of stones from soil (13th–14th centuries; French regional murger , merger , morgier ; compare post-classical Latin murgerium (1260; apparently < Old French)), perhaps itself a derivative of classical Latin mūrex murex n. in the extended sense ‘a sharp rock or stone’.The ending -geon perhaps suggests a French origin, if it is not simply a remodelling after other words with this ending. Now English regional (chiefly north-western and East Anglian). the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) 628 (MED) It come noȝt a kyng son..to sytt Doune in margon & molle emange othire schrewis. 1607 J. Norden iv. 229 Many fetch Moore-earth or Murgion from the riuer between Colebrooke and Uxbridge. 1750 G. Hughes *251 Some..Vapours that arose from the Mudgeon or Dregs of the Liquor. 1785 W. Hutton 333 A noise struck my ear, like the crumpling of frosty murgeon. 1787 W. Marshall I. 30 Another specimen of manure much coveted here is ‘mergin’—that is, the rubbish of old buildings. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Murgeon, rubbish, earth cut up and thrown aside in order to get peats. 1985 D. Dymond xv. 217 Farmers also used the rubble of old buildings known as ‘mergin’ and great quantities of ‘town muck’ from Norwich. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). murgeonn.2Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Older Scots mudgeounes. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of Older Scots mudgeounes, mudȝons (plural), recorded in Older Scots only in text cited in quot. a1585 at main sense, although compare modern Scots mudgins , mudgeons in same sense; this word is itself of uncertain origin, perhaps showing a variant of motion n., or perhaps showing spec. use of a verbal noun corresponding to mudge v.1, although the verb is otherwise only attested much later; it is possible that two originally independent words may have become confused (see further Dict. Older Sc. Tongue and Sc. National Dict. s.vv.). Now Scottish. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > grimace or distortion a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 234 Schou maid sic morgeownis with hir hippis, For lachtter nain mycht hald thair lippis. a1585 A. Montgomerie 495 With mudȝons, and murgeons, and mouing the braine, They lay it, they lift it [etc.]. 1642 F. Kynaston 66 Sea Monsters..on the waters surface nimbly swome, Making odd murgeons with their looks ascaunce. 1695 J. Sage (1697) Pref. n 2 If their Mein had resembled so much as the Murgeons of an Ape, I could have pardon'd him. 1735 A. Ramsay (1961) III. 131 They were surrounded to the Gallows, Making sad reufu' Murgeons. 1808 A. Scott (ed. 2) 120 Meg wast the gate, wi' murgeons prim,..that straught and tall is. 1842 R. Chambers (new ed.) 59/1 He keeps a curn o' queynies, and a wheen widdy-fu's, and gars them fussle, and loup, and mak murgeons, to please the grit folk. 1929 J. Alexander 43 He got haud o' a stick an' began to ledder the breeks as hard's he cud. Bit he seen saw 'at there wis nae murjins, an' he took haud o' the legs, an lo! an' behold he hid naething. Compounds 1823 W. Scott I. ii. 52 Down came masons and murgeon-makers, and preachers and player-folk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). murgeonv.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: murgeon n.2 Etymology: < murgeon n.2Quot. 1982 for murgeoning adj. at Derivatives for murgeoning is taken from a newspaper article humorously lampooning the politician Roy Jenkins (Lord Jenkins of Hillhead) for (it is suggested) deliberately reviving an obsolete Scots word in a constituency speech before the Glasgow Hillhead by-election. The article makes use of a number of other rare or obsolete Scots words. Sc. National Dict. s.v. takes quot. 1837 at sense 2 as showing a sense ‘to utter or express with vehemence or unrestrainedly’. Scottish. Now rare. 1. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie (1928) II. 262 Scho skornit Iok and skraipit at him and mvrionit him wt mokkis. 1606 W. Birnie ii. sig. B1v The very world; who..hes beene accustomed to murgean and apishly to imitate the Kirks holy ceremonies. 1718 A. Ramsay i. iv. 6 She scorned Jack, and scraped at him, And murgeon'd him with Mocks. 1789 D. Sillar 109 When he was hung up i' the woody, Instead o' mournin, I murgeon'd him, an' danc'd cucuddy, Tae see him girnin'. a1859 W. Watt (1860) 344 Ye'd gi'e thae pawkie loons a clearin', Wha murgon us wi' gibin', jeerin', And gar us greet. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > face with expression [verb (intransitive)] > distort c1586 J. Stewart (1913) 94 Vith flyring face his mouth did murgeon tho And syndrie sounds maist terribile did mak. 1606 W. Birnie vii. sig. C1v In steed of mourning in the dust..we mumchance and mourgean in such dilicate duilles, that [etc.]. 1827 W. Tennant 15 The furious folk o' Fife At Paip and idol in their strife Were murgeonin' and mockin'. 1891 24 Mar. 6/5 But wi' my mither [he] sat down to crack, And I murgeon'd at him ahint his back. the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > complain [verb (intransitive)] 1808 J. Jamieson (at cited word) To Murgeon,..2. To murmur, to grumble, to complain. 1837 III. 304 How he..murgeoned his Cameronian aiths as he saw their smolt spirits scour awa to heaven like fire flaughts! Derivatives 1982 19 Jan. 10/5 Mr Jenkins is understood to attribute..such calumnies to ‘a rickle of camstairy clishmaclavers..and murgeoning rinthereouts’ in rival political parties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
