Authority Cited: Chaucer
Author name and dates: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
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Author name and dates: Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
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- Urry Chaucer (1721) quoted in SJ Dict. prefatory material. Bibliographical information: The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: compared with the former editions, and many valuable mss. Out of which, three tales are added which were never before printed, by John Urry, student of Christ-Church, Oxford, Deceased. 1721, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, between the Temple Gates. [BKG Note: Watson in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (1936, rpt. 1965) demonstrates (pp. 92-93) that the Urry edition was quoted by SJ in the dictionary prefatory material, but does not address the citations of Chaucer in the word list. Yale Vol. 18, p. 184, states that a number of Chaucer citations in the Dict. word list are from either the Urry Chaucer of from Junius's Etyomologicum Anglicanum. See also the Yale Vol. 18 index for the Chaucer quotations in the Dict. "History of the English Language" and "Grammar of the English Tongue."]
- Chaucer (no work cited) Chaucer citations in the word list include: braid, adj. (etym.); con, v.a. (etym.); coy, adj.; daisy, n.s.; dam, n.s. (etym.); defend, v.a.; donjon (dongeon), n.s.; dredge, n.s. (etym.); drotchel, n.s. (etym.); erke, n.s.; fond, n.s. (etym.); glitterand, part.; grin, n.s.; gourd, n.s. (etym.); harlot, n.s. (etym.); huggermuggger, n.s. (etym.); jumble, v.a. (etym.); kerchief, n.s. (etym.); mucker, v.n. (etym.); pallet, n.s. (etym.); portass, n.s. (etym.); quaint, adj.; rote, n.s.; round, v.n. (etym.); shall, v. defective (etym); sneap (snibbe), v.a.; spick and span, (etym.); tackle, n.s.; truantship, n.s. (etym.); welkin, n.s.; wrench. n.s. (etym.)