playfeer
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English playfere, equivalent to play + feer.
Noun edit
playfeer (plural playfeers)
- (obsolete) A playfellow; a playmate.
- 1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The Moone-calfe”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for VVilliam Lee, […], published 1631, →OCLC, page 250:
- [S]he was wont to call him her deare ſonne,
Her little play-feere, and her pretty Bun: […]