Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Superbious, outdated Notion Of The Eighteenth Centery

This is pretty funny. But they occur in the network. So at the moment, many people are searching for the meaning of "superbious.Century dictionary entry with the word and it says superbious means "proud, haughty.


Urban Dictionary gives several other accounts

"The adjective, that is great, amazing, super!", He says, and lists one example of the use, too, as in "Superbious!, I'm glad you're here."

But the OED maintains century version. She argues that the word means "proud, overbearing, arrogant," having its roots in the great. The word makes its way into some of the literature Elizabethan period and its aftermath. But the last recorded use appears in the eighteenth century.

William Shakespeare used the word once in a tragedy Locrine, eldest son of King Brutus, in the following passage-

Also cause I need your threats, you princox boy,
Also, doe, I'm afraid of your stupid arrogance,
What about you, but it is better to use your blade bragging,
So you're the same rule your overcrowded language
Superbious England, you'll know too soon
The force of the Humber and the Scythians.