单词 | contecker |
释义 | † conteckern. Obsolete. One who contends at law, or is at strife or discord; a quarrelsome contentious person, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > quarrelsomeness > quarrelsome person conteckerc1300 brawler1377 strivera1400 debater1413 tuilyier1444 briguer1496 Sir Wrig-wraga1529 brabbler1570 squarer1600 pickeerer1656 rafflerc1750 roit1825 pickeer1888 c1300 Beket 196 Aȝen the proute conteckours that wolde aȝen him oȝt do. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 328 Þise contekours whidere þei assigned a stede þat es, & þer þei com togidere & mak a sikernes. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 209 Iulius was i-slawe with swerdes of comoun contakkours [L. gladiatorum capulis; v.r. contakeurs, contekkers or brawlers, ed. 1527 conteckers]. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 4 Any riotour oþer contekour. c1450 Abce of Aristotill 36 in H. Gilbert Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 66 A Coward, And Contacowre, manhod is þe mene. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1300 |
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