{"id":473,"date":"2017-04-16T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T22:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2017-05-03T06:33:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:33:07","slug":"1273-cutthroats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"1273 Cutthroats"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are more cutthroats<\/a> than I expected! Some are still in hiding and some are waiting for the right moment to delight and offend.<\/p>\n

Recently, the most fertile cutthroat fields have been surname dictionaries and board game names and cards (many suggested by @snapshot_reviews<\/a>). If you see capital letters in this list – it’s either a surname or the name of a game.<\/p>\n

The attached PDF has 33 pages of cutthroats and their earliest year of attestation.<\/p>\n

1273 Cutthroats<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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PDF Legend:<\/strong>
\nPurple highlight<\/span><\/strong> = it has loanword components
\nYellow highlight<\/span> <\/strong>= no year found yet
\nRed highlight<\/span><\/strong> = it may not be a cutthroat
\nBold font<\/strong> = it is confidently a cutthroat<\/p>\n

The 33 page-topping cutthroats:<\/h2>\n

amuse-bouche<\/strong> FOOD: an appetizer “amuse-mouth”
\nbreak-bones<\/strong> ADJ: that breaks bones
\nBrekpole, John<\/strong> OCCUPATIONAL SURNAME: a soldier
\ncarryknave<\/strong>\u00a0PERSON: a sex worker
\nchokepriest<\/strong> FOOD: an Italian soup
\nCoupe Rose<\/strong> SURNAME “cut-rose”
\ncut-girdle<\/strong>\u00a0PERSON: a criminal, the same as cutpurse
\nDrawfart, Dr.<\/strong> PERSON: a quack doctor
\nfill-sack<\/strong> PERSON: a wealthy\u00a0person
\ngardnap<\/strong> TOOL: a mat placed on a table to protect the tablecloth
\nhale bowline<\/strong> PERSON: a capable seaman
\nhum cap<\/strong> DRINK: very strong beer
\nKillebolle, Gilbert<\/strong> OCCUPATIONAL SURNAME: a butcher
\nlackstock<\/strong> PERSON: one who has no money in stocks
\nLovelass<\/strong> PERSON: a dandy
\nmean-nothing<\/strong> CONCEPT: an insincere phrase
\nnipcurn<\/strong> PERSON: a miser (curn = corn grain)
\npickwick<\/strong> TOOL: instrument that pulls up the wick on a lamp
\npraisegravy<\/strong> PERSON: someone who extols the cooking
\nrake-shame<\/strong> PERSON: a criminal, a rogue or scoundrel
\nsay-hand<\/strong> CONCEPT: “a test or trial of the suitability of something”
\nscrape-pelf<\/strong> PERSON: a miser (pelf = dishonest riches)
\nshakespeare<\/strong> PERSON: a soldier
\nslabber-chops<\/strong> PERSON: an untidy eater
\nspare-penny<\/strong> PERSON: a miser
\nsprout-cale<\/strong> MONTH: an epithet for February
\nstick-jaw<\/strong> FOOD: difficult-to-chew food like pudding or sweetmeat
\nsuck-fist<\/strong> PERSON: a flatterer
\ntake-heed<\/strong> CONCEPT: prudence, caution
\ntickle-pitcher<\/strong> PERSON: a drunkard
\nTruslove<\/strong> OCCUPATIONAL SURNAME: a tamer of wolves “bind-wolf”
\nwag-tail<\/strong> ANIMAL: a small bird from the family\u00a0Motacillid\u00e6
\nwhip-king<\/strong> PERSON: a king-maker<\/p>\n

Onward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are more cutthroats than I expected! Some are still in hiding and some are waiting for the right moment to delight and offend. Recently, the most fertile cutthroat fields have been surname dictionaries and board game names and cards (many suggested by @snapshot_reviews). If you see capital letters in this list – it’s either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutthroats","category-words","cat-27-id","cat-6-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4SNLB-7D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclopediabriannica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}