ETYMOLOGY
of uncertain derivation; the suffix as in bast-ard, etc
EXAMPLE (for n.)
“… one daye as in a mornyng that he came out of the hous of a comyn woman He mette wyth a lewde haskarde, whyche for to doo the sayd synne of lechery went to the hous there as the holy man fro…”
From: Vitas Patrum
Translated by William Caxton, 1495
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