† vernileadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Servile, slavish.
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go-by-ground?a1300
thrall1398
abjectc1430
manly?c1430
servicious1440
serviceable1483
servile1537
tame1563
slavish1565
demiss1572
submissive1572
cringing1579
fawning1585
incrouching?1593
vassal1594
scraping1599
obsequious1602
spaniel1606
observing1609
deprostrate1610
supplea1616
vernile1623
shrugging1629
wormy1640
compliable1641
thrall-like1641
obeisant1642
inservient1646
truckling1656
cringeling1693
benecking1705
subservient1714
footman-like1776
bingeing1805
sidling1821
toadying1863
crawlsome1904
toadyish1909
crawling1941
ass-kissing1942
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Vernill, slauish.
1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1843 T. De Quincey in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 60 This scandal of Roman society was not..a pure product, from the vernile scurrility of which we hear so much in Roman writers.
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