Talk:thwittle

RFV discussion: February–March 2022

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thwittle

• (obsolete) A small knife; a whittle.
  • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reues Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

    A Sheffeld thwitel baar he in his hose.

Removed / moved to Middle English by Astova. J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Cited This, that and the other (talk) 02:10, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed for this form, but the RFV for thwitel remains open. This, that and the other (talk) 09:32, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

thwitel

Listed as an alternative form of thwittle; removed by Astova. J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Nothing in EEBO except one Chaucer text. Google Books has some marginal cites, certainly no more than three, perhaps not even that: [1] This, that and the other (talk) 09:32, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed This, that and the other (talk) 02:53, 20 March 2022 (UTC)