| ahungry | In predicative use: in a state of hunger; hungry (for something). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| a-thus-gate | In this way, thus. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| at-low | Below. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| babish | trans. To mock, deride (a person); to treat with contempt (as if merely a child). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| bainly | Readily, willingly; at once. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| bargainer | One who is treating as to sale or purchase, a dealer, a trafficker; a chafferer, a haggler. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| blooding | A black pudding. Cf. blood pudding at blood n. 5. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| bragance | Bragging, boasting. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| brawl | A noisy turbulent quarrel, a ‘row’, a squabble. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| carllein | A little carl. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| chapped | Fissured; cracked; as clayey ground in summer, or the hands and lips by exposure to frost. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| chess | One tier or layer above another; a storey of a house. Now only dial. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| chuffer | (app.) Deceiver, cheat, impostor. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| clatter | Noisy talk; confused din of voices, gabble. Often applied contemptuously to what is treated as mere empty gabble. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| cocket | The following may be the same word: but cf. cock v. 4, cocked adj. (both of later date). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| cod-piece | A bagged appendage to the front of the close-fitting hose or breeches worn by men from the… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| colknyfe | A long or large knife; perhaps the same as the Scottish kail-gully ‘a large knife… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| conceytate | Pregnancy. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| crib | intr. ? To feed at a crib. (In quot. 1500 humorously of persons.) Obs. rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| croak | intr. To utter a deep, hoarse, dismal cry, as a frog or a raven. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| croon | To utter a low murmuring sound; to sing (or speak) in a low murmuring tone; to hum softly. spec.… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| crump | A variant of cramp n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| cuker | Some part of a woman's dress. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| dalle | The hand. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| daunch | Fastidious. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| deaf | trans. To make deaf, to deafen. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| deftly | Aptly, skilfully, cleverly, dexterously, nimbly. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| dillydown | Cf. dilli-darling n., dilling n. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| dold | Stupid, inert, as through old age, cold, etc. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| douse | A sweetheart; a ‘dear’. Also ironical. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| ear | The action of ploughing; a ploughing. Also in comb., as ear-land, ear-time. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| eft-white | trans. (absol.) To repay. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| emonges(t | = amongst prep. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| farly | Far, to a great extent or distance. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| fone | | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| fortake | trans. To take away. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| frig | intr. To move about restlessly; to agitate the body or limbs. Cf. fridge v. 1. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| gad | intr. To go from one place to another, to wander; esp. to wander about with no… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| garray | Commotion, disturbance, noise, row. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| glum | intr. To look sullen; to frown, scowl. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| Gotham | The name of a village, proverbial for the folly of its inhabitants (‘wise men of… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| grank | intr. To groan. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| grass | trans. To plunge or sink in grass. Obs. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| hatters | An asseveration (perh. = Christ's or holy garments). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| havel | A term of reproach applied to a man; ? low fellow. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| hemmed | Furnished with a hem or border; sewed with a hem. hemmed in: shut in, confined, imprisoned. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| holard | A whoremonger. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| hurled | Deformed or distorted, as a club-foot. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| idle | Meaning obscure. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| ill-deedy | Given to evil deeds, mischievous. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| indicter | One who indicts, a formal accuser. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| infude | To infuse or inspire (a person) with. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| intraste | trans. To trust in. (Perh. to be read as two words.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| knap | trans. To strike with a hard short sound; to knack, knock, rap. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| lait | Searching, search. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| lew | Lo! behold! | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| likance | Liking; pleasure. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| livering | A pudding made of liver and rolled up in the form of a sausage; = liver pudding n. at liver n. adj. 1a. Freq. in pl. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| lordfast | Bound to a lord. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| lusking | Slothful, lazy. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| maud | An old woman; a hag. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| mighteous | That is full of might or power. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| misfounding | Mistaken judgement, misunderstanding. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| muff | intr. Chiefly in negative contexts: to utter a word; to speak. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| naping | Grasping, greedy. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| nibble | trans. To take a small bite, or a series of small bites, at or from (a thing); to… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| nooning | The time around noon; midday. rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| omnes | Everyone, all: used as a stage direction to indicate that the following words or lines… | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| onefold | Consisting of only one part, division, element, or unit; single; simple. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| pransawte | Prob.: ostentation, showing off. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| purse-cutter | A thief who cuts purses in order to take their contents; a cutpurse. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| quease | intr. To breathe. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| ram-skit | As a term of abuse: ram droppings. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| renderer | A person who or thing which renders something (in various senses). | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| restority | As a count noun: a restorative. Also fig. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| runk | intr. To whisper, murmur, speak secretively. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| scapethrift | A spendthrift. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| scar | ? Easily provoked. Obs. rare. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| shrog | A bush; also pl. underwood. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| skawte | (Meaning uncertain.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| slape | Slippery; smooth. Also fig., crafty, cunning, deceitful. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| sleight of hand | Dexterity or skill in using the hand or hands for any purpose; expertness in manipulation or manual action. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| snoke-horn | ? A sneaking fellow. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| spart | App. a term of abuse, of obscure origin. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| Stafford | some kind of blue cloth. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| teethy | Touchy, testy, peevish, crabbed. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| templeless | Having no temple, destitute of a temple. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| tenory | = tenor n. 4. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| toned | Sounded with the proper, or a specified, tone. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| twyfyl | (Meaning uncertain.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| tyr | A call used to drive or direct sheep. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| unbiched | App. = bicched adj. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| uncessantly | = incessantly adv. (Very common 1550 – 1690.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| vowgard | (Meaning obscure.) | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| wealthly | Happy, delightful. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| well-toned | Having a good tone, in various senses: see toned adj. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| wemay | An exclamation, app. denoting impatience or surprise. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| wheeze | intr. To breathe hard with a whistling sound from dryness or obstruction in the throat, as in asthma. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| whyr | A call used in driving sheep. | 1460 | Go To Quotation |
| wragger | One who wrangles. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
| wring | The act of wringing, twisting, or writhing; an instance of this. Also fig. | 1499 | Go To Quotation |
