单词 | wanger |
释义 | † wangern. Obsolete. A pillow. Speght (1602) explains the word (in Chaucer) as ‘a male, or bouget’, and this explanation appears in Kersey 1708 and later dictionaries and glossaries. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > pillow or bolster pilloweOE wangerc900 bolsterOE pilliverOE cod1392 transom1459 bed-head1483 hacoyte?1541 cod-pillow1569 tye1615 heading1847 weeping willow1880 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. xiv. [xi.] 296 To þon þætte from dæle þæs heafdes eac swylce meahte wongere betweoh geseted beon. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 124 Ceruical, wangere. c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 201 His brighte helm was his wonger [v.rr. wanger, wongere, wangere.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c900 |
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