nugari

nugari [CL], ~are 1 to engage in inconsequential, trifling, or frivolous activity. ‥ belli simulacra figurat / arma legit, naves per aquas nugando suaves R. Cant. Malch. prol. 5 p. 42; tertia nugandi sors instat amorque jocandi Ib. II 132; 1164 more divitum, quos oblectat hoc ~andi genus, in avibus celi luderet J. Sal. Ep. 134 (136 p. 2); si jubet ut nugas agites, ~are decenter Id. Enth. Pol. 381A; quisve polos et eosdem Ixionis axes / circinet et tociens uno nugetur in orbe? Hanv. VII 237. 2 to talk nonsense, to say something meaningless. b to joke. quid tu ~ando mutire disponis? Gildas EB 1; fiunt interdum designationes ex quibus ~ari accidit, velut idem replicando ut ‘quidam homo bipes’ ‥ alie ex quibus falsum dicere ut ‘homo quadrupes’ Balsh. AD rec. 2 119; nomina non sic ponimus ut ex eis vel ~ari vel falsum dicere contingat Ib. 136; ideo ~atur cum dicitur homo animal vel animal homo Siccav. PN 65. b sepe de ejus simplicitate solitos ~ari, sepe insignes facetias in illum jaculari W. Malm. GR II 197. 3 to deceive; b (w. dat.). circumstante metu si flenda vides sine fletu, / vestis nugatur, qua luctus significatur Serlo Wilt. app. 4. 20 p. 158. b verbis, risu, basiis vane gloriatur / et sibi ficticiis lusibus nugatur P. Blois Carm. 5. 6. 4.

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