gulchecuppe
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom gulchen (“to gulp”) + cuppe (“cup”).
Noun
editgulchecuppe
- A drunkard.
- c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (Cotton MS Nero A. XIV)[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1225-1250, folio 56, verso; republished at London: British Library Digitised Manuscripts, 2013 March 29:
- ȝif þe gulchecuppe ƿeallinde breſ to drincken. ⁊ ȝeot in hiſ ƿide þrote. þet he a ſƿelte ƿiðinnen.
- Give the tosspot molten brass to drink, and pour it into his wide throat, that he may die inwardly.
Descendants
edit- English: gulch-cup
References
edit- “gulche-cuppe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 May 2018.