Talk:druxy

Etymology, and drix

Citations (including mentions) I collected while referencing this, belatedly move out of my userspace:

• 1609 (original; edition of 1634), C. Butler, Fem. Mon., page 57:

  The wasp ... worketh a comb of the utter drix of pales, or other timber.

• 1928, Roderick Dew, A history of the parish and church of Kilkhampton, page 158:

  Another old word in common use for decayed wood is drix. Many quotations showing the ancient use of this word might be given, such as : "We liken an old man who laboureth with continuall infirmities to a drie and dricksie oke" (Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, Bk. III. ch. xlx.) […]

• 1589, The arte of English poesie [ascribed to G. Puttenham] ed. by Edward Arber, page 252:

  we liken […] an old man who laboureth with continuall infirmities, to a drie and dricksie oke.

• 1963, Helga Spevack-Husman, The Mighty Pan:, page 314:

  Hierzu als eine Art 'Geschwulst' bzw. Schwammstelle am Holz das vollkommen rätselhafte engl, druxy, Adj. '(of timber) having decayed spots concealed by healthy wood' und drix 'decayed wood; the decayed part (of timber)' (OED s.v.)?

- -sche (discuss) 23:03, 31 July 2020 (UTC)