Lexicographical Neighbors of Ayword
Literary usage of Ayword
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"3 : "grill him into an ayword " (fol.). ayword is probably from ay, always, A.
Sax. a, also customary, common ; cf. as, common law. ..."
2. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"... I an ayword Ff. Cavendish as wearing " velvet or satin with a chain of gold."
One of the methods used to clean gilt plate was rubbing it with crumbs. ..."
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