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Oxford English Dictionary defines Whiggamore as Hist
The Oxford English Dictionary gives a different etymology for whiggamore
and comments:
The OED states that WHIG as a verb is "1. trans. To urge forward, drive briskly.". So whiggamore means to drive a mare. So according to the OED it has nothing to do with so sour milk. -- Philip Baird Shearer ( talk) 13:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Note the OED also has the word "whig, n.1"
With an etymology
The OED specifically mentions in the etymology of "Whig, n.2 and a" :
And quotes authors making such a supposition as 1717 DE FOE Mem. Ch. Scot. III. (1844) 68/2; 1721 WODROW Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. II. ii. I. 263; a1734 NORTH Exam. II. v. §10 (1740) 321
-- Philip Baird Shearer ( talk) 14:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
A Google book search on "became known as the Whiggamore raid." returns lots of books that could be used to write more on this subject -- PBS ( talk) 20:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Stevenson, David. Revolution and counter-revolution in Scotland, 1644-1651, Royal Historical Society, 1977 ISBN 0901050350, 9780901050359 p. 115
Paterson, Raymond Campbell. A land afflicted: Scotland and the Covenanter Wars, 1638-1690, , J. Donald Publishers, 1998. p. 168
Roberts, John Leonard. Clan, king, and covenant: history of the Highland clans from the Civil War to the Glencoe Massacre, Edinburgh University Press, 2000 ISBN 0748613935, 9780748613939 p. 104
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Oxford English Dictionary defines Whiggamore as Hist
The Oxford English Dictionary gives a different etymology for whiggamore
and comments:
The OED states that WHIG as a verb is "1. trans. To urge forward, drive briskly.". So whiggamore means to drive a mare. So according to the OED it has nothing to do with so sour milk. -- Philip Baird Shearer ( talk) 13:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Note the OED also has the word "whig, n.1"
With an etymology
The OED specifically mentions in the etymology of "Whig, n.2 and a" :
And quotes authors making such a supposition as 1717 DE FOE Mem. Ch. Scot. III. (1844) 68/2; 1721 WODROW Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. II. ii. I. 263; a1734 NORTH Exam. II. v. §10 (1740) 321
-- Philip Baird Shearer ( talk) 14:01, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
A Google book search on "became known as the Whiggamore raid." returns lots of books that could be used to write more on this subject -- PBS ( talk) 20:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
Stevenson, David. Revolution and counter-revolution in Scotland, 1644-1651, Royal Historical Society, 1977 ISBN 0901050350, 9780901050359 p. 115
Paterson, Raymond Campbell. A land afflicted: Scotland and the Covenanter Wars, 1638-1690, , J. Donald Publishers, 1998. p. 168
Roberts, John Leonard. Clan, king, and covenant: history of the Highland clans from the Civil War to the Glencoe Massacre, Edinburgh University Press, 2000 ISBN 0748613935, 9780748613939 p. 104
Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: A Land Afflicted: Scotland and the Covenanter Wars, 1638-90. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:14, 17 August 2013 (UTC)