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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
nercotikes
- narcotics
- 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales,
- For he hade yeve his gayler drynke so
Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn,
With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales,