英和和英

語源

From Old French losengeor; equivalent to losengen +‎ -our.

発音

• IPA: /ˌlɔzɛnˈd͡ʒuːr/, /ˈlɔzɛnd͡ʒur/, /ˌlɔzɛnˈd͡ʒeːr/, /ˈlɔzɛnd͡ʒər/

名詞

losengeour (plural losengeours)

1. flatterer, sycophant
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Alas! ye lordes, many a false flatour / Is in your court, and many a losengeour.

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2. liar, fibber
3. deceiver, trickster
4. rogue, scoundrel

関連する語

• losengen
• losengerie

派生した語

• English: losenger (obsolete)

参照

• “lō̆senǧer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.