micelæte

Old English

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Etymology

By surface analysis, miċel- (“great”) +‎ ǣta (“eater”) +‎ -e (adjectival suffix)

Adjective

micelæte

1. gluttonous, eating a lot

References

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “micel-ǽte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.