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prettygoodwordfoulder (FOWL-dr) - v., (obs.) to flash like lightning, to thunder.
This would be even more obsolete but for its surviving as a poeticism long after it fell out of general use, thanks in part to Spenser using it. It's an alteration of Middle English fouldre, lightning, from Old French foudre/fouldre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur, lightning/thunderbolt.
---L.
This would be even more obsolete but for its surviving as a poeticism long after it fell out of general use, thanks in part to Spenser using it. It's an alteration of Middle English fouldre, lightning, from Old French foudre/fouldre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur, lightning/thunderbolt.
---L.
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Date: 2023-06-28 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-28 03:31 pm (UTC)Yah -- I can see why it survived as a poeticism.