Broadbrim is a derivative word; but it is one often applied to a very _primitive_ kind of person.
Etymology teaches the varieties, modifications, and derivation of words.
The derivation of words means that which they come from _as words_; for what they come from as _sounds_, is another matter. Some words come from the heart, and then they are pathetic; others from the nose, in which case they are ludicrous. The funniest place, however, from which words can come, is the stomach. By the way, the Lord Mayor would do well to keep a ventriloquist, from whom, at a moment’s notice, he might ascertain the voice of the corporation.
Comic Etymology teaches us the varieties, modifications, and derivation, of words invested with a comic character.
Grammatically speaking, we say that there are, in English, as many sorts of words as a cat is said to have lives, nine; namely, the Article, the Substantive or Noun, the Adjective, the Pronoun, the Verb, the Adverb, the Preposition, the Conjunction, and the Interjection.
Comically speaking, there are a great many sorts of words which we have not room enough to particularise individually. We can therefore only afford to classify them. For instance; there are words which are spoken in the _Low Countries_, and are _High Dutch_ to persons of quality; as in Billingsgate, Whitechapel, and St. Giles’s.
Words in use amongst all those who have to do with horses.
Words peculiar to the P. R. where the order of the day is generally a word and a blow.
Words of endearment, addressed to children in arms.
Similar words, sometimes called burning, tender, soft, and broken words, addressed to young ladies, and whispered, lisped, sighed, or drawled, according to circumstances.
Words of honour; as, tailors’ words and shoemakers’ words; which, like the above-mentioned, or lovers’ words, are very often broken.
With many other sorts of words, which will be readily suggested by the reader’s fancy.
But now let us go on with the parts of speech.
1. An Article is a word prefixed to substantives to point them out, and to show the extent of their meaning; as, _a_ dandy, _an_ ape, _the_ simpleton.
One kind of comic article is otherwise denominated an oddity, or queer article.