bourder
English
Etymology
From Middle English bourdour, from From Old French bordeor, bourdour; equivalent to bourd + -er.
Noun
bourder (plural bourders)
- (obsolete) A jester.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Malory to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bourder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Gallo
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Verb
bourder
- to get bogged down, stuck, be unable to move forward
Middle English
Noun
bourder
- Alternative form of bourdour
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