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▪ I. borrel, borel, a. arch.|ˈbɒrəl|
Forms: 4 borel(l, burel(l, 5 borelle, 6 borrell, Sc. burell, burrell, 7–9 borrel, borel.
[Conjectured to be an attrib. use of borel, burel n. ‘coarse clothing’; the adj. and the n. appear in the same forms in 14th c., but in Eng. writers from Caxton onwards the adj. is borrel, borel, while the n. is regularly burrel, burel. Sense 2 seems to be a development of 1, which appears much earlier. See borowe.]
†1. Belonging to the laity. Obs. (or arch.)
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 286 And þanne shal borel clerkes ben abasched, to blame ȝow or to greue. c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 164 And moore we seen of cristes secree thynges Than burel [so in 4 MSS., Heng. burell, Corpus borell, Harl. borel] folk al though they weren kynges. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 52 Some of hem [priests] ben as borelle folkes be. c1575Gascoigne Fruites Warre xxviii, Bycause they covet more than borrell men. 1860J. W. Warter Sea-Board & D. II. 473 As with the lay and borrel man, so too with Bishop, Priest, or Deacon.
2. Unlearned, rude; rough. arch. (In quot. 1513 said of spears; cf. boistous, boisterous.)
1513Douglas æneis Prol. 48 Weill ma I schaw my burell busteous thocht. Ibid. vii. xii. 56 Bayr in thair handis lance stavis and burrell speris. 1572Gascoigne Flowers Wks. (1587) 111 My borrell braine is all too blount To give a gesse. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. i. 63 His words seeme borrel and rude. 1727Cowell's Law Dict. s.v. Bordel, Borel-folkes, drunkards, and epicures, which the Scotch now call burielfolk. 1828Scott F.M. Perth v, A coarse, ignorant, borrel man like me. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 318 Lo, such are borel folk.
▪ II. borrel
var. of borel, Sc., an auger. |