Middle English edit

Noun edit

dereling

  1. darling
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3792-3793:
      ‘Why, nay,’ quod he, ‘god woot, my swete leef,
      I am thyn Absolon, my dereling!’
      "Why, nay," said he, "God knows, my sweet beloved,
      I am thy Absolon, my darling!

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Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English derelyng, from Old English dīerling.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

dereling

  1. darling

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 34