more-handadv.
Editorial misreading of more honour, arising from Morris's misinterpretation as the ascender of a d of what later editors read as a mark of suspension above a u. In E. V. Gordon's 1953 edition, the line reads:In Morris's glossary, explained as: more.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 475 What more honour mote he acheue Þat hade endured [etc.].
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1864 R. Morris Pearl viii. 475 in Early Eng. Allit. Poems 15 What more-hond moȝte he acheue Þat hade endured [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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adv.1864- i wouldn't touch him with a bargepole
- i wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole
- i wouldn't touch him with a ten-forty-foot pole
- i wouldn't touch him with a tenfoot pole
- i wouldn't touch him with a tenfortyfoot pole
- i wouldn't touch him with the end of a bargepole
- i wouldn't touch it with a bargepole
- i wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
- i wouldn't touch it with a ten-forty-foot pole
- i wouldn't touch it with a tenfoot pole
- i wouldn't touch it with a tenfortyfoot pole
- i wouldn't touch it with the end of a bargepole
- i wouldn'won't say no to
- i you could go
- i you plight
- i you should be so lucky
- i you, he, etc) would gladly
- i'd like to know
- i'd like to see
- i'd like to see a person do an event occur
- i'd like to see a person do something,
- i'd like to see you try
- i'd rather
- i'd say
- i'd say so