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▪ I. yex, yesk, n. Now dial.|jɛks|, |jɛsk|
Forms: 1 ᵹesca, iesca, ᵹescea, ᵹeocsa, ᵹeoxa, ᵹeohsa, ᵹihsa, 4–6 yoxe, 5–7 yexe, 6 yeax, yeske, 6–7 yeox(e, 7 yex, yox, 7, 9 Sc. yesk, 9 yisk, yucks, yeux, yokes.
[OE. ᵹesca, ᵹeocsa, *ᵹicsa (ᵹihsa), related to next.]
An act of yexing; † a sob (obs.); a hiccup or the hiccups.
a700Epinal Gloss. 958 Singultus, iesca. c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) T 71 Tentigo, ᵹesca. a1000Boeth. Metr. ii. 5 Me þios siccetung hafað agæled, ðes ᵹeocsa. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 60 Þam monnum þe for fylle ᵹihsa slihð. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. ix. (Tollem. MS.), To abate þe ȝoxe [ed. 1495 yexe] þat comeþ of fulnesse. 1530Palsgr. 291/1 Yeske that cometh of the stomake, sanglout. 1547Boorde Brev. Health cccxxv, It is named the yexe or the hicket, and of some the dronken mans cough. 1548Patten Exped. Scot. Pref. c vj b marg., [They] wt a yoxe, do soon dye. 1565Harding Answ. Jewel ii. 138 The yeax and vomite followed. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lxxiv. 246 Two or three branches of Myntes..do swage and appease the Hicquet or yeoxe. 1601Holland Pliny xxviii. xx. II. 342 They shall find a remedie for the yox. 1609― Amm. Marcell. xxx. ix. 392 The yex that often shooke his flankes and small guts. 1621J. Taylor (Water P.) Goose Wks. (1630) i. 110/2 One staggering there hath got the drunken yox. 1808Jamieson, Yeisk, Yesk, s., a single affection of hiccup, S. as, He gae a great yesk, S. B. eesk, id. 1818Todd, Yux..: sometimes pronounced yex, and yox, or yokes.., the hiccough. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 266 Drink..Which cures the yisk and waterbrash. 1876Whitby Gloss., Yeux, a hiccup. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v. Yucks, Why Tommy, you've a-got the yucks—drink some cold water.
▪ II. yex, yesk, v. Now Sc. and dial.
Forms: α.1 1 ᵹeocsian, ᵹeoxian, 3–4 ȝoxe, 4–6 yoxe, 4–7 yexe, 5 ȝexe, 6 yeax, youx, yowx, 6– yex, 9 dial. yox, yocks, yaux; α.2 5–6 yeske, 6 yeask, 6– yesk; α.3 4–5 ȝoske, 5 yoske. β.1 1 ᵹiscian, 5 yiske, ȝyske, 5–6 ȝisk, ȝeisk, 9 yisk; β.2 5 ȝyxe.
[OE. ᵹeocsian, ᵹiscian, corresp. to OHG. geskôn, gesgizôn ‘oscitare’: of imitative origin.]
†1. intr. To sob. Obs.
c888ælfred Boeth. ii. §1 Ac ic nu wepende & ᵹisciende ofgeradra worda misfo. c1050[see yexing]. c1290Beket 1536 in S. Eng. Leg. 150 And sore wepinde he wende forth, he ȝoxede and siȝte wel ofte. 13..S. Erkenwolde 312 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 312 Þe bysshop..hade no space to speke, so spakly he ȝoskyd. 1388Wyclif 2 Kings iv. 35 The child ȝoxide [1382 brethed] seuene sithis. c1440Alphabet of Tales 29 And agayn he suld dy, he began at yiske. 1510Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) A iv, Singultio, to yeske or to sob. 1601Holland Pliny xviii. xxxv. I. 614 Ravens crying one to another as if they sobbed or yexed therewith. 1629Gaule Holy Madn. 283 What thinkst thou of the Body, that yelpes and yexes, at any small push?
2. To hiccup.
a1400Arund. MS. 42 lf. 28 b in Promp. Parv. 539 note, Anet..the sed coct, and al hot put to þe nostrelle, soffreth noȝt to galpyn, ne to rospyn, ne to ȝexyn. 1432–50, etc. [see yexing]. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 298 Be yoxinge, ne bolkynge, ne gronynge. 1530Palsgr. 786/2 Whan he yesketh next, tell hym some straunge newes, and he shall leave it. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1545) X vij, It chaunceth oftentymes that a chylde yeaxeth out of measure. Wherfore it is expedyent to make the stomake eygre afore it be fed. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxi. 90 He..yawned, spitted, coughed, yexed. 1656Blount Glossogr., To Yex, is that we do, when we have the Hicket or Hick up. 1711Ramsay On Maggy Johnstoun vi, We did baith glow'r and gaunt..yesk, and maunt. 1804Couper Poetry II. 220 Weel like ye, yeeskin', to be there, Though morn's a head-ach.
3. trans. To belch forth. Also intr. to belch; to hawk; to expectorate.
c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 231 (Ellesm.) He yexeth [v.rr. ȝeskeþ, ȝoxeth] and he speketh thurgh the nose As he were on the quakke or on the pose. 1513Douglas æneis iii. ix. 82 His nek fourth of the cave He straucht, fordrunkin,..Bokkis furth and ȝiskis of ȝoustir mony streme. Ibid. viii. iv. 36 At his mouth..His faderis reky flamb furth ȝiskit he. Ibid. 154 A laithly smok he ȝiskis blak as hell. a1555Lyndesay in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club) 521/1441 Scho puft and yiskit with sic riftis, That verry dirt come furth with driftis. 1560T. Phaer æneid. ix. (1562) D iv, He their maisters head wt sword ofchopt, & left his tronke furth yexing belching blood. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. v. 58 He..Beheld him yesking forth his ghost. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 154 It garr'd him yesk his drammach. 1882W. Worc. Gloss., Yox, v. to cough, or spit up. 1893S.E. Worc. Gloss., Yaux, v. to cough, or expectorate. ‘I don't want no bacca smokers in my kitchen, yauxin' an' spettin' about.’
Hence ˈyexer, one who yexes.
1611Cotgr., Sengloteur, one that hath the hickocke; a yexer. |