Middle-English Word of the Day - December 20, 2007
Bocche (n.) - a tumour, boil.
Kynde Conscience tho herde, and cam out of the planetes,
And sente forth his forreyours -- feveres and fluxes,
Coughes and cardiacles, crampes and toothaches,
Rewmes and radegundes and roynouse scalles,
Biles and bocches and brennynge agues,
Frenesies and foule yveles -- forageres of Kynde
Hadde ypriked and prayed polles of peple;
- Langland, William: The vision of Piers Plowman (1377-1379)
Pronunciation: /boUtS@/
Key
/b/ b in boy
/oU/ o in note
/tS/ ch in chin
/@/ a in sofa
The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and Skeat's
"Concise Dictionary of Middle English."
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The approximate pronunciation is determined using Carol Hamill's Middle English Pronunciation Guide
and noted using upon the ASCII-IPA Standard
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