Obsolete Word---Possibly Abusive

[magda]

What is agrimomesie--please?

[Togo]

Sounds like of the soil or perhaps an old French word for peasantry? Guess....after a few vinos.

[bookbinder]

Even Dr. Google's never heard of it.

[Cloverjo]

I can't find it in any physical or online dictionary. Are you sure the spelling is correct?

[jourdain2]

Sounds distinctly agricultural - a disparaging word like 'peasant' perhaps?

[magda]

Thanks folks---it is very elusive. Magda

[Khandro]

I think it's to do with agricultural memory loss, like when you can't remember where you left your spade. :0)

[atalanta]

In the Oxford English Dictionary - ( you know, the huge one) there is only one word beginning "Agrim*" and that is "agrimony" - a plant. If you can come back with an alternative spelling, I'll have another go.
(There is a vaguely similar word, which means ' disease of the tail-feathers of hawks' - but somehow I don't imagine you are terribly interested in the tail feathers of hawks. If you are, let me know. )

[Tilly2]

Where have you seen this word? Can you give us the context, please.

[dannyk13]

Found this on Google but can't find Kandro's post
Obsolete Word---Possibly Abusive. What is agrimomesie--please?... 22:18 Sat 09th Apr 20166 answers, last by Khandro 11:31 Sun 10th Apr 2016.

[Tilly2]

Khandro's post's up there, Danny ^^^^

[dannyk13]

Thanks Tilly, don't know how I missed that.

[Tilly2]

agrimomesia, Danny.:-)

[dannyk13]

lol

[woofgang]

that ending sounds french....have you tried a french dictionary?

[dannyk13]

Just checked, nothing comes close.

[jno]

momesia is a jokey word for new (or older, for that matter) mothers forgetting things. At a guess, agrimomesia might apply to farmers' wives. if it ends in E, it might be a French version.

[magda]

Amazing folks ---but not totally convinced yet. The word appeared several times in a Devonian Tudor court transcript--in a disparaging manner. This is a very rich source of English rural history and the words are often unfamiliar in the present ---but this one has caused more head scratching than usual. Magda

[Jackdaw33]

The surrounding context would be a great help. Perhaps if you could supply a sentence or two in which the word is used.

[Mamyalynne]

From a glossary of Tudor/Stuart words...


//agrim

affret, onset, fierce encounter. Spenser, P. Q. iii. 9. 16; iv. 3. 16. Cp.
Ital. affrettare, to hasten, make speed (Florio).

affront, to meet face to face, to encounter. Hamlet, iii. 1. 31 ; Ford,
Perkin Warbeck, v. 1 (Dalyell). Affront, an accost, meeting. Greene, Tu
Quoque, or The City Gallant ; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, xi. 265. F. affronter,
1 to come before, or face to face ' (Cotgr.). //


Not sure if that gives us a start.

[Mamyalynne]

Here's the glossary should you wish to browse it.

https://archive.org/stream/glossaryoftudors00skeauoft/glossaryoftudors00skeauoft_djvu.txt