foulder

Jun. 21st, 2023 07:38 am
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foulder (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.

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