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- noun
Shakespearean nonce word meant to behumorous rather than to make any sense.
Etymologies
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Comic portmanteau word, probably on confirm and infirmity
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Examples
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By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never meet but you fall to some discord: you are both, in good troth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you cannot one bear with anothers confirmities.
Act II. Scene IV. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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Why, this is the old fafhion; you two never meet, but you fall to fome difcord: you are both, in good troth, as 'rheumatic as two dry toafts; you cannot one bear with another's confirmities.
The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes William Shakespeare , Joseph Rann 1791
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i 'good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you cannot one bear with another's confirmities.
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