forsling

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch verslinden, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Dutch *farslindan (“to devour”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *farslindaną, *fraslindaną (“to devour”), equivalent to for- +‎ (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *slindaną (“to devour”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, creep”). Cognate with Dutch verslinden (“to devour”), Middle Low German vorslinden (“to devour, eat up”), German verschlinden, verschlingen (“to devour, swallow up”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (fraslindan, “to gobble, swallow, devour”).

Verb

forsling (third-person singular simple present forslings, present participle forslinging, simple past forslung or forslong, past participle forslung or forslongen)

1. (transitive, archaic) To swallow down; gobble up.
   • 1924, William John Thoms, Henry Morley, Roger Bacon, Early English Prose Romances:

     He hath waited by night and day in such wise that he hath stolen so many of my children that of fifteen I have but four, in such wise hath this thief forslongen them.

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