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† contecker Obs.
Forms: 4 conteckour, -tekour, -tecour, -takkour, -takeur, 5 contacowre, 6 contecker.
[ME. conteckour, a. AF. contekour = f. contekier, to conteck. (Hence app. contackerous, cantankerous.)]
One who contends at law, or is at strife or discord; a quarrelsome contentious person, etc.
c1300Beket 196 Aȝen the proute conteckours that wolde aȝen him oȝt do. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 328 Þise contekours whidere þei assigned a stede þat es, & þer þei com togidere & mak a sikernes. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 209 Iulius was i-slawe with swerdes of comoun contakkours [Lat. gladiatorum capulis; v.r. contakeurs, contekkers or brawlers, ed. 1527 conteckers]. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 4 Any riotour oþer contekour. c1450ABC 36 in Q. Eliz. Acad. 66 A Coward, And Contacowre, manhod is þe mene. |