ETYMOLOGY
from Old French buisnart, buinard (silly fellow)
EXAMPLE
“…”Wat! nou const þou no god?
Me þinkeþ þat þou art wod:
Ȝeuest þo þe welpe mustard?”
“Be stille, boinard!…”
From: Dame Siriz (Dame Sirith),
A late thirteenth-century Middle English poem.
• nou const þou no god? = can you do no good?
• þinkeþ = thinketh
• wod = mad, crazy
• Ȝeuest þo þe welpe = give you the whelp
• Be stille, boinard = hold your tongue fool
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