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parlousadj.adv. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: perilous adj. Etymology: Variant of perilous adj. (see forms s.v.), with loss of the medial vowel. A. adj.the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > astute c1390 (Vernon) 53 Whon þeos perlous [v.r. parlous] prestes perceyued hire play. 1584 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas v. 71 O you whose noble harts cannot accord, to be the sclaues to an infamous lord: And knowes not how to mixe with perlous art, the deadly poyson with the Amorus dart. 1600 W. Shakespeare iii. i. 12 Berlakin, a parlous feare. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. iv. 35 A parlous [1597 perilous] Boy: go too, you are too shrew'd. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger (1980) ii. ii. 798 He is a Scholler, and a parlous Scholler. 1641 J. Milton 6 Sure some Pedagogue stood at your Elbow, and made it itch with this parlous Criticisme. 1657 A. Cokayne v. vi. 67 You have a parlous wit. 1696 E. Phillips (new ed.) Parlous, a kind of made Word, signifying shrewd, notable. 1699 B. E. Parlous, or Perillous Man, a notable shrew'd Fellow. 1730 H. Fielding Epil. sig. Aiii Oh! may our Youth whose Vigour is so parlous, To Italy be wafted with Don Carlos. 1765 J. Otis 29 I believe he must be a man of parlous courage; and yet he is modest withal. 1825 J. T. Brockett Parlous..acute, clever, shrewd. 1848 P. J. Bailey (ed. 3) 176 Oh! you are a parlous little infidel. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ xxxiv. 443 We were advantaged by no parlous start of them, and being on foot are as yet no mighty way from where we took the water. 1928 A. E. Pease 93/1 A parlous looking person may be forbidding, dangerous, suspicious looking &c. 2. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > insecure > precarious α. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2273 (MED) Ful perlous is displese hem or disturbe. a1500 (?a1450) (Harl. 7333) (1879) 108 (MED) The holy gost levithe the, & then hit shall be to the a perlewse case. 1535 Micah ii. 3 It will be a perlous tyme. 1619 M. Drayton Legend Pierce Gaueston in (new ed.) 357 His course was per'lous to be stayd. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe v. i, in (1647) sig. Oo4v/2 Upon a Perles ground too. the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or delicate 1657 A. Cokayne iii. ii. 31 This London Wine is a parlous Liquour. 1868 R. Browning I. i. 15 Mother Church: to her we make appeal By the Pope, the Church's head! A parlous plea, Put in with noticeable effect, it seems. 1882 H. C. Merivale II. 106 Snipe—a parlous bird to hit, at the best of times. B. adv.the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > excessively c1425 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Princeton Univ.) (1940) §2205 Perlouse [v.rr. perilouse; greuously; c1405 Hengwrt al be it so þat she perilously be wounded, we shullen do so ententif bisynesse..þat..she shal be hool & sound as soone as is possible]. 1575 T. Churchyard f. 18 A skaffold plaine, where on we reuells make A croked path, a parlous fals hie way. ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond (1911) 188 Its a parlousse vnthriftye ladde. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley (1656) iii. 40 Ime old you say Yes parlous old Kidds and you mark me well. 1796 I. 135 The night is parlous cold. 1796 I. 136 He's a parlous rich man. 1817 J. Keats Lett. in (1889) III. 54 'Twould be a parlous good thing. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. vi. 99 There's parlous little care from the great. 1866 J. G. Edgar xiv. 81 She is parlous handsome, and bewitching to look upon. 1908 W. E. W. Collins xiv. 233 Leaving us in a parlous bad condition by putting catch after catch..upon the carpet. 1985 Sept. 15 Dan sez,..‘Ah think Darwin was a parlish clivver oald chap, an ah bleeve ivverything at he writ in his beuk.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  adj.adv.c1390 |
