Word of the Day: BRIGOUS

ETYMOLOGY
either from:
a) Middle French brigeux (from brigue (a quarrel, an argument; strife, contention)) + -eux (-ous)
b) from Latin brigosus (from briga (quarrel, dispute, strife) + -ōsus (-ous) + -ous 
c) or directly from brigue (a quarrel, an argument) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“…Þis answere assoileth noght at all This brigous questioun…”

From: De Consolatione Philosophiae (on The Consolation of Philosophy)
By Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Translated by John Walton, c1450