Saturday, January 19, 2019
Pedosequus
Francis Grose (1731-1791), A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd ed. (London: S. Hooper, 1788), unpaginated:
George Cardinal Pell, with cappa magna
Pedosequus is my own coinage, suggested by the following:
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FART CATCHER. A valet or footman, from his walking behind his master or mistress.
Pedosequus is my own coinage, suggested by the following:
- Latin pĕdĭsĕquus = footman, man-servant, page
- Latin pēdo = break wind
- Greek παῖς, παιδός = child, boy (cf. pedophile and its apocopated form pedo)
