gnap Scottish noun meaning a bite, morsel. Low-frequency in current use. Attested 1768–1871.
gnatling Noun meaning a small gnat. Also figuratively, an insignificant person or thing. Very low-frequency in current use. Attested 1614–1805.
gnatty Adjective meaning resembling a gnat; infested with gnats. Low-frequency in current use. Attested 1846–1909.
1846 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs ii. 28 You…gnatty, flop-eared varmint!
gnede Obsolete adjective. Meaning 1: of people: sparing, niggardly, miserly. Also gnede of (gifts, etc.). Attested c. 900–c. 1440. Meaning 2a: of things: scarce, scanty; small. Also in stronger sense, altogether lacking or wanting. to make the gates gnede: to go straight to one’s destination. Attested c. 1000–c. 1450. Meaning 2b: barely so much. Attested c. 1400.
Derivatives: gnedely. Obsolete adverb meaning sparingly, frugally. Attested c. 1000–c. 1225. gnedeship. Obsolete noun meaning miserliness. Attested c. 1480. gnedy. Obsolete adjective meaning miserly. Attested c. 1225–1393.
gneeve Anglo-Irish noun meaning the twelfth part of a ploughland. Low-frequency in current use. Attested 1638-1780.
gnib Scottish adjective meaning sharp, smart, eager. Low-frequency in current use. Attested 1755–1801.
1801 W. Beattie Fruits Time Parings 17 The mair we drank, we grew the gnibber.
gnide Obsolete transitive verb meaning to rub with or between the hands; to bruise, crush, to rub out. Also intransitive, to crumble away. Attested c. 1000–c. 1330.
gnidge Transitive Scottish verb meaning to rub, squeeze, preeze. Also to gnidge off. Very low-frequency in current use. Attested c. 1755–1768.
gnip Obsolete transitive Scottish verb meaning to nip or to bite, and in particular of a horse to champ at the bit. Attested c. 1425–1513.
gnodde Obsolete transitive verb meaning to rub, bruise, crush. Attested c. 1230–15th century.
gnoff Obsolete noun meaning a churl, boor, lout. Attested c. 1405–1610.
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Deactivated gnidge not gnide you gnatty gnoff!
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I started actually reading that book Hamlet and Revenge, the one I mentioned back in my “Hamlet Prime” riff, and so far it seems extremely convincing, not that I know anything about the territory
I mean I’ve barely gotten beyond the part about Act 1 Scene 1, but that part was an extensively footnoted tour de force showing how that scene references like 20 different bits of popular Elizabethan ghost lore to convey that the ghost is probably an evil spirit (in fact the ways the characters interact with it are classic tests for whether the spirit you’re seeing is demonic, and they all suggest it is!), so I’m excited to see Eleanor Prosser lay out the rest of her theory about how Hamlet is about an evil demon making a dude go grimdark
