Definitions
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- adjective obsolete unfettered; falling down
Etymologies
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A Shakespearan coinage
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Examples
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Eva Gonorowsky, her hair in wildest disarray, her stocking fouled, un-gartered, and down-gyved to her ankle, appears before her teacher.
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Gonorowsky, her hair in wildest disarray, her stocking fouled, ungartered, and down-gyved to her ankle, appeared before her teacher.
Little Citizens Myra Kelly 1893
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He seemed to consider personal ease, rather than taste, in the arrangement of his toilet; for he appeared in the presence of the court in a pair of half-worn slippers, stockings "down-gyved," a shirt-bosom much spotted with tobacco-juice, and a neck-cloth loosely adjusted about his red, beefish throat.
qms commented on the word down-gyved
I’ve poked, I’ve prodded and strived.
At last my conclusion’s arrived:
When droopy your hose
(But no other clothes)
Uniquely are labelled down-gyved.
January 16, 2018