† colloverthwartn.
Obsolete.
? Foolishly perverse; a perverse fool.
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1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 101 b And shall we beare with this colloverthwarte Osorius like a vice in a play, with a new founde chaungelyng, to make myngle mangle with the sacred worde of the Lord?
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 190 b Therfore this cavillyng coleoverthwart creepeth yet foreward.
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n.1581- to kiss the hare's foot
- to kiss the pax
- to kiss the pope's toe
- to kiss the post
- to kiss the rod
- to kiss the stocks
- to kiss well
- to kitchen it well
- to kitchen well
- to kitsch it up
- to kneel it
- to kneel up
- to knit a knot
- to knit up
- to knit, bend one's brows
- to knock a an apple out
- to knock a an apple out of
- to knock a child out
- to knock a child out of
- to knock a hole, gap
- to knock a person into the middle of next week
- to knock a person off his or her perch
- to knock a person senseless
- to knock a person silly
- to knock a person stupid