losengeour
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- losanger, losangere, losanjour, losenger, losengere, losengour, losengowr, losenjour, losenjoure, losongere, losynger, losyngere, lozengeour, lozenjour
Etymology[edit]
From Old French losengeor; equivalent to losengen + -our.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
losengeour (plural losengeours)
- flatterer, sycophant
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, 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:
- Alas! ye lordes, many a false flatour / Is in your court, and many a losengeour.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- liar, fibber
- deceiver, trickster
- rogue, scoundrel
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: losenger (obsolete)
References[edit]
- “lō̆senǧer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.