sevendible adj.
(Ulster) severe, harsh, esp. of a beating; thus sevendably adv.
, , | Sl. Dict. 224: sevendible a very curious word, used only in the North of Ireland, to denote something particularly severe, strong, or sound. It is, no doubt, derived from seven-double ? that is, seven-fold ? and is applied to linen cloth, a beating, a reprimand, &c. | |
Armagh Guardian 23 Dec. 5/6: He gave him a sevendible fine beating. | ||
Northern Whig 7 Aug. 6/1: ‘evendible’ (severe). | ||
Northern Whig 9 Apr. 6/3: ‘Sevendible’ is a word that carries with it suggestions of weather [...] of the wintriest description. | ||
Soundless Tide 188: The damage to property was sevendible. | ||
Ballymena Obs. 20 Dec. 11/7: ‘Bad,’ says he, ‘sevendible bad, never was worse’. | ||
Ballymena Obs. 24 Feb. 10/4: ‘Did you not hear a wild dunnerin’, sir? [...] It was a sevendible clatter altogether’. | ||
Stone Fiddle n.p.: The two O’Connors fell upon their Protestant friends and trounced them sevendably [BS]. |
In derivatives
severity.
Wkly Freeman’s Jrnl 26 May 3/6: ‘A may be a softy [...] or a gomeril, but A kent see any wisdom or sevendibility in that at all!’. |