Word of the Day: WLATSOME


ETYMOLOGY
from wlat (nausea, loathing, disgust) from Old English wlætta


EXAMPLE
“…þe thrid pine es hard to drei,
O wormes þat sal neuer dei,
Fell dragons and tades bath
þat ar apon to lok ful lath,
Ful  wlatsum  on to here or se,
Ful wa es þam þat þare sal be;
Als we se fixs in water suim,
Sua liue þai in þat lou sa dim….”

From: Cursor Mundi
A Northumbrian poem of the 14th century

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