"nidor, n." - Word of the Day from the OED

[Henry M]

Anyone have any insight into how lost words are found by authors (and then
used) such as Pynchon? Simply a matter of spending time in libraries with
old texts?  (Has anyone tried spending time in the NYPL in hopes of a
sigting?)


Yours truly,
٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Henry Musikar, CISSP
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Your word for today is: nidor, n.
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> nidor, n.
> [‘ The smell given off by animal substances, esp. of a fatty or greasy
> nature, when cooked or burnt. Also: any strong or unpleasant odour, vapour,
> etc.’]
> Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈnʌɪːdə/, /ˈnʌɪdɔː/,  U.S. /ˈnaɪˌdɔ(ə)r/, /ˈnaɪdər/
> Inflections:  Plural  unchanged, (occas.) nidors.
> Forms:  16 nidour,   16– nidor.
> Etymology: <  classical Latin nīdor a rich strong smell (from food or
> things burnt), fumes, cognate with ancient Greek κνῖσα, and Icelandic hniss
> (17th cent.). Compare Middle French, French †nideur (1597).
>   The smell given off by animal substances, esp. of a fatty or greasy
> nature, when cooked or burnt. Also: any strong or unpleasant odour, vapour,
> etc.
> a1620  M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. xi. §4. 116 Who maketh..his
> Caldron, his Sensor; his Nidor, his Incense; his Table, his Altar.
> 1662  H. Stubbe Indian Nectar iii. 29, I had my smell affected with such a
> nidor, as issues from fat, when broiled.
> 1678  R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 810 That Evil
> Demons or Devils, were..delighted with the Blood and Nidours of Sacrifices.
> 1707  J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 264 In the Nidor of the Stomach
> there are hot Winds.
> 1746  R. James in Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) Introd.
> 43 A Nidor, or Stink, peculiar to Animal Substances in a State of
> Putrefaction.
> 1811  S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 203/2 No living nostril has scented the
> nidor of a human creature roasted for faith.
> 1851 Harper's Mag. Jan. 163/2 He might have been tempted to express his
> homage through the Pagan fashion of raising altars and burning
> incense..provided always that the nidor were irreproachable.
> 1923 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 159/2 A nidor was to him an agony impossible to
> endure.
> 1994 Sunday Times (Nexis) 3 July, The corporeal must of dead thoughts and
> forgotten words..the nidor of tatty jackets and grubbily thumbed flies.
> 1997  T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon liii. 514 With the black nidor of the
> Torches for her first Incense.
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