smoterlich
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare smut.
Adjective[edit]
smoterlich
- dirty; foul
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reues Tale”, 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:
- "And eke for she was somdel smoterlich"
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References[edit]
- “smoterlich”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.