† nittifyv.
Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive (reflexive). Perhaps: to remove or disturb one's nits or head lice; to reinfest oneself with nits.The allusion is to hair-cutting.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > infest with noxious creatures [verb (transitive)] > infest with lice or nits
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. B2v He, alas,..hath nittifide himselfe with a dish..any time this fourteene yeare, to saue charges of sheep-shearing.
2. transitive. To bespatter as with nits.
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1647 Maids Petition 5 Wyat the Prick-louse will nittifie our Corps with the small shot of reproofe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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v.1596- to pay an account
- to pay any one in his own coin
- to pay at the stub
- to pay attention or one's attention to
- to pay away
- to pay back
- to pay both scot and lot
- to pay both scot and scot
- to pay both scot and to pay lot
- to pay double taxes
- to pay down
- to pay footing
- to pay for
- to pay for footing
- to pay for one's footing
- to pay for one's scot
- to pay for one's whistle
- to pay for scot
- to pay forfeit
- to pay homage
- to pay home
- to pay in
- to pay its way
- to pay lip service
- to pay mind