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Examples
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Ben Jonson in Cynthia's Revels used the nonce-word irpe: "From Spanish shrugs, French faces, smirks, irpes, and all affected humours,
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In an issue of N. & Q. not two weeks later, in commenting on a correspondent's plea for help in tracing the form irpe, Skeat wrote:
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The authorities guess that an irpe is a fantastic grimace or contortion of the body.
sionnach commented on the word irpe
A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body.
(1913 Webster)
"Smirks and irps and all affected humors". --B. Jonson.
October 14, 2008