Word of the Day: WRABBLE

ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin

EXAMPLE
“… Amang all vtheris in Martis gresy cave
The sowkin wolff furth streking brest and vdyr;
About hir palpis, but feyr, as thair moder,
The tua twynnis, small men childring jing,
Sportand full tyte gan to
wrabill and hing …”

From: Translation of Virgil’s Æneid
By Gavin Douglas, 1513

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