† meritotn.

Forms: late Middle English merytot, late Middle English mery trotte, 1600s meritot, 1600s merytote.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps transmission error for viretote n., or perhaps shortened < merry-totter n. (although this is first attested slightly later) and in quot. c1430 substituted scribally for the unfamiliar word viritoot . With form mery trotte compare forms s.v. merry-totter n., and perhaps compare trot n.¹ N.E.D. (1906) labels this word as spurious and cites it as: ‘occurring as a corrupt reading in Chaucer, and hence in Blount and later dictionaries’.

Obsolete.

= viretote n.

ΚΠ

c1430 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Cambr. Gg.4.27) 3770 Sum gay gerl..Hath brouȝt ȝow þus vp on the merytot [v.r. mery trotte; Hengwrt viritoot].

1602 in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer (new ed.) f. 13^v/2 Merytote [1598 berytote].

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Meritot, a sport used by children by swinging themselves in Bel-ropes, or such like, till they be giddy; In Latin it is called Oscillum... Chauc.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	meritot
释义	† meritotn. Forms: late Middle English merytot, late Middle English mery trotte, 1600s meritot, 1600s merytote. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps transmission error for viretote n., or perhaps shortened < merry-totter n. (although this is first attested slightly later) and in quot. c1430 substituted scribally for the unfamiliar word viritoot . With form mery trotte compare forms s.v. merry-totter n., and perhaps compare trot n.¹ N.E.D. (1906) labels this word as spurious and cites it as: ‘occurring as a corrupt reading in Chaucer, and hence in Blount and later dictionaries’. Obsolete. = viretote n. ΚΠ c1430 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Cambr. Gg.4.27) 3770 Sum gay gerl..Hath brouȝt ȝow þus vp on the merytot [v.r. mery trotte; Hengwrt viritoot]. 1602 in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer (new ed.) f. 13^v/2 Merytote [1598 berytote]. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Meritot, a sport used by children by swinging themselves in Bel-ropes, or such like, till they be giddy; In Latin it is called Oscillum... Chauc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1430
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