Word of the Day: GERFUL

ETYMOLOGY
from gere (a wild and changeful mood; a sudden fit of passion or feeling) + -ful

EXAMPLE
“… Now vp, now doun, as boket in a welle
Right as the friday, soothly for to telle
Now it shyneth, now it reyneth faste
Right so,/kan geery Venus ouer caste
The hertes of hir folk, right as hir day
Is gereful, right so chaungeth she array
Selde is the friday, al the wowke ylike
Whan þat Arcite had songe, he gan to sike …”

From: The Ellesmere MS of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer, c1386