The following are a list of the sources for the Archaic Dictionary / Archaic Definitions of the Week.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
– busk, pompkin, sixes and sevens, zad.
- A Sea of Words
– froward, jackass & jackass rig, lickerous, quillon, quoin.
- The Book of Beasts : A Latin Bestiary of the 12th Century
– picus (woodpecker), ybis.
- Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
– funk, new year’s gifts.
- Continuum Dictionary of Religion
– almoner, ancilia.
- Depraved and Insulting English
– mageira, skimmington.
- Dictionary & Native’s Guide to the Unknown American Language
– ewer, simoleon, tony.
- Dictionary of Early English
– demonocracy, facinorous, glebe, igly, nicker, ugsome.
- Dictionary of Newfoundland English – ballicatter, yess.
- Dictionary of the American West
– heifer brand, jacket.
- Dictionary of the Marine – cockswain, futtocks, horse in the snow.
- Dictionary of Superstitions
– white bird.
- Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage
– mossyback, possum beer.
- Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
– pinguescent.
- Endangered Words: A Collection of Rare Gems for Book Lovers
– kumatage, lychnobite.
- Forgotten English
– handfasting, karrows.
- Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
– big heads.
- Hans Wehr Dictionary of Arabic
– ammariya.
- Johnson’s Dictionary
– fret, hoiden, ospray, promptuary.
- Literary Terms: A Dictionary
– gesta.
- Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories
– fallow.
- Pirate Dictionary
– disembogue, rummage.
- Prostitute Dictionary of the Old West
– cat wagon.
- Ship to Shore: Everyday Words and Phrases Derived from the Sea
– jollies.
- Weird and Wonderful Words
– vease.
- Wordsworth Dictionary of Obscenity and Taboo
-belly.
