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单词 musard
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musardn.

Forms: Middle English mosard, Middle English moserd, Middle English mossard, Middle English musarde, Middle English muserde, Middle English–1500s musard.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French musard.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman musard, musarde, mussarde fool, rogue and Middle French musard fool (late 12th cent. in Old French; also as adjective), idler (1530; a1480 as adjective in sense ‘lazy’) < muser muse v. + -ard -ard suffix. Compare post-classical Latin musardus (13th cent. in British sources; earlier (1086) as a surname), Italian musardo ( < French).Apparently attested earlier as a surname: Hascoit Musard (1086), Hascuil Musard (1161–2), Will. Musard (1228), Radulfo Musard (1254), etc., although it is unclear whether these are to be interpreted as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word.
Obsolete.
A dreamer, a fool, an idler; a wretch.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting > one who
musardc1330
tifflerc1535
dalliera1568
pingler1578
puddlera1585
wag-wanton1601
fiddle-faddle1602
piddler1602
pedlara1625
potterer1837
frivolist1884
frivoller1889
tiddlywinker1893
muck-about1933
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > one who daydreams
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John-a-dreams1603
air-monger1628
castle-builder1711
daydreamer1750
castle-hunter1752
Alnaschar1800
reverist1824
stargazer1843
Johnny Head-in-the-Air?1851
pipe-dreamer1899
head-in-air1932
Walter Mitty1947
Mitty1953
c1330 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) 122 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 117 Þe Inglische cowardes..no be bot mossardes.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 380 (MED) Ich wene þou art a fole musard!
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 229 (MED) Comen is þe Sarazin..Clad in cloþes fyn; himself is a mosard.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 4034 Alle men wole holde thee for musarde [Fr. musart]..It sittith thee nought curteis to be.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vii. 171 The kyng Charlemagn maketh vs lyke fooles, and holdeth vs for nyce & musardes.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 183 We ne do but as musardes [Fr. chi fors muser a la folie].
1532 (?a1400) Romaunt Rose 7560 (MED) Thou her watchest at the gate, With speare in thyn arest alway; There muse, musard, al the day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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