hething
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
hething
- contempt
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4109-4110:
- ‘Allas,’ quod Iohn, ‘the day that I was born!
Now are we drive til hething and til scorn.’- ‘Alas,’ said John, ‘the day that I was born!
Now are we driven to contempt and to scorn.’
- ‘Alas,’ said John, ‘the day that I was born!
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4109-4110:
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English hething, from Old Norse hæðing (“a scoffing”), from háðung (“scorn, shame, disgrace”).
Noun[edit]
hething (uncountable)
References[edit]
- “hething”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.