losenger
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English losengeour, losenger, from Old French losengier, losengeor, from losengier (“to deceive, flatter”), losenge (“flattery”), flattery, Occitan lauzenga, from Latin laus praise. Compare lozenge.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlosenger (plural losengers)
- (obsolete) A flatterer or deceiver.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 60:
- To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done.
References
edit- “losenger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editNoun
editlosenger
- Alternative form of losengeour
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns