godon
See also: Godoń
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French godon, speculatively connected to English God damn, although the profanity is not attested in Middle English.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editgodon (feminine godonne, masculine plural godons, feminine plural godonnes)
Gothic
editRomanization
editgōdōn
- Romanization of 𐌲𐍉𐌳𐍉𐌽
Ladin
editVerb
editgodon
Middle French
editEtymology
editSpeculatively connected to English God damn, although the profanity is not attested in Middle English.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgodon m (plural godons, feminine singular godone, feminine plural godones)
- (ethnic slur) Englishman
- 15th century, anonymous (perhaps Olivier Basselin), “Chanson LXI”, in Armand Gasté, editor, Chansons normandes du XVè siècle, 1866:
- Ne craignez point a les batre / ces Godons, panches a pois / Car vng de nous en vault quatre / Au moins en vault il bien troys
- Do not fear at all to fight them / These pea-bellied godons / Because one of us is worth four of them / [Or] at least, well worth three of them.
- (derogatory) glutton
Adjective
editgodon m (feminine singular godone, masculine plural godons, feminine plural godones)
- (ethnic slur) English
- c. 1490, “Le Roy engloys”, in Manuscrit de Bayeux:
- Ils ont chargé l'artillerie sur mer / Force biscuit et chascun ung bidon / Et par la mer jusqu'en Bisquaye aller / Pour couronner leur petit roy godon.
- They embarked the artillery on ship / [With] many biscuits and each man a bottle / And went by sea up to Biscay / To crown their little godon king.
Descendants
edit- French: godon
Welsh
editPronunciation
edit- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔdɔn/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɡoːdɔn/, /ˈɡɔdɔn/
Verb
editgodon
- Soft mutation of codon.
Mutation
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