Word of the Day: GORREL


ETYMOLOGY
from Old French gorelgorreau (a pig, hog);
related to Old French gore (sow): of unknown origin.


EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“…Crampe that comyth of replycyon fallyth ofte to fatte men and flesshly and well fedde and gorrelles…”

From: Bartholomew de Glanville’s De Proprietatibus Rerum,
Translated by John Trevisa, 1495

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