/ˈmɔnɪplaɪz/. manypliesn.
/ˈmɛnɪplʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈmɛniˌplaɪz/, Scottish English /ˈmɛnɪplaɪz//ˈmɔnɪplaɪz/. Chiefly Scottish.† 1. Scottish. A complex or tortuous statement or argument. Obsolete.
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1728 in P. Walker Six Saints (1901) I. 8 To rip up..the foul moniplyes of that bundle of these intricate implicate, multifarious, and unnecessary oaths.
1823 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Oct. 401 Our poor little libel, followed by defences, and all other procedure, and with the constant dropping in of new facts and new arguments, in the course of its moniplies..in due time acquires a goodly size.
2. † b. humorous. The stomach or intestines of a person. Obsolete.
a. The omasum or third stomach of a ruminant. Now archaic.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant > parts of > stomach > third
omasum1553
omasus1658
feck1681
manyplies1782
psalterium1840
fardel1862
1782 A. Monro Ess. Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 39 in Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) Omasum, vulgo the manyplus.
1803 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 2 218 In the fold of the second [sic] stomach or monnyplies.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 82/1 The third stomach, the manyplus.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. i. 43 In all the ruminating animals there are four stomachs: the ingluvies;..the reticulum;..the omasum or many-plies; and the abomasum.
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 16 The..‘manyplies’ or ‘fardel’ (omasum).
1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xi. 220 The more enterprising leader of the herd had been peaceably stuffing her rumen, honeycomb, manyplies and abomasum with Farmer Droridge's grass.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [noun]
maweOE
wombOE
codc1275
cropc1325
gut1362
stomachc1374
bellyc1375
pauncha1393
flanka1398
heartc1400
kitchen?a1500
kytec1540
micklewame1566
craw1574
ventricle1574
pudding house1583
buck1607
wame1611
ventricule1677
ventriculus1710
victualling-office1751
breadbasket1753
haggis1757
haggis bagc1775
baggie1786
pechan1786
manyplies1787
middle piece1817
inner man1856
inner woman1857
tum-tum1864
tum1867
tummy1867
keg1887
stummick1888
kishke1902
shit-bag1902
Little Mary1903
puku1917
Maconochie1919
1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 143 It temper'd weel our mony-plies.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. i. 4 As if he feared the very exertion of uttering a word or two might unsettle his moniplies.
1890 J. Service Thir Notandums 119 Rinnin' at them wi' a gully, he swure he wad mak fiddle-strings o' their moniplies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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