Wiktionary:Todo/English Chaucer

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#*  #*   #*  #*   #*   #*   #*   #: {{rfquotek|enm|Chaucer}} From {{inh|en|enm|-}}. First attested circa second half of 14th century, from the similarity between the sizzling sound of food cooking in a frying pan and that of musical pipes, from Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: #: {{rfquotek|enm|Chaucer}} #: {{rfquotek|enm|Chaucer}} #: {{rfquotek|enm|Chaucer}} #: {{rfquotek|enm|Chaucer}} {{attention|enm|move to new Middle English section}} #: {{rfquotek|enm|Chaucer}} #: {{rfquotek|enm|Chaucer}}
 * Anne
 * 1) * 1380s-1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale:
 * bescorn
 * bourd
 * disparage
 * due course
 * Dunmow
 * egality
 * 1) * c. 1390,, Parson's Tale:
 * Emily
 * 1) * 1380s-1390s,, The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale
 * enhort
 * fordry
 * 1) * 1387-1400,, .
 * gent
 * guerdon
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1366|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=The Romaunt of the Rose|section=ll. 2607-10
 * halp
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|Monk's Tale|passage=Thus halp him God.}}
 * idolastre
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1387|author={{w|Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer}}|title=w:The Parson's Tale|chapter=|edition=|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xWIgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA85|passage=What difference is ther betwix an idolastre, and an avaricious man?}}
 * incense
 * 1) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 410-413:
 * inn
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|version=Hg|title=Knight's Tale|folio=29|verso=yes|url=https://viewer.library.wales/4628556#?c=&m=&s=&cv=69|passage={{...}}Whan he hadde broght hem ǁ in to his citee / and Inned hem ǁ{{...}}|translation={{...}}when he had brought them into his city and lodged them,{{...}}}}
 * 2) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|version=Hg|title=Wife of Bath's Tale|folio=62|url=https://viewer.library.wales/4628556#?c=&m=&s=&cv=134|passage=For who so wolde senge a cattes skyn / Thanne wolde the cat wel dwellen in his In|translation=For if someone wants to singe a cat’s skin, the cat would rather stay in its house.}}
 * jane
 * 1) * 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124,
 * licentiate
 * 1) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 218-220:
 * line
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=s:The Canterbury Tales|year=1387
 * lord
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1391|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=Treatise on the Astrolabe|section=ii. §4
 * merlin
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=w:Parlement of Foules|year=c. 1381–1382|chapter2=The Assembly of Fowls|editor2=D[avid] Laing Purves|title2={{w|The Canterbury Tales}} and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser.{{nb...|Edited for Popular Perusal, with Current Illustrative and Explanatory Notes}}|location2=Edinburgh|publisher2=William P. Nimmo|year2=1874|page2=220, column 2|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=YDpiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA220|oclc2=16857511|passage=The gentle falcon, that with its feet distraineth / The kingës hand; the hardy sperhawke eke, / The quailës foe; the merlion that paineth / Himself full oft the larkë for to seek; [...]|brackets=on}}
 * merlion
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=w:Parlement of Foules|year=c. 1381–1382|chapter2=The Assembly of Fowls|editor2=D[avid] Laing Purves|title2={{w|The Canterbury Tales}} and {{w|The Faerie Queene|Faerie Queene}}: With Other Poems of Chaucer and {{w|Edmund Spenser|Spenser}}.{{nb...|Edited for Popular Perusal, with Current Illustrative and Explanatory Notes}}|location2=Edinburgh|publisher2=William P. Nimmo|year2=1874|page2=220, column 2|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=YDpiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA220|oclc2=16857511|passage=The gentle falcon, that with its feet distraineth / The kingës hand; the hardy sperhawke eke, / The quailës foe; the merlion that paineth / Himself full oft the larkë for to seek; {{...}}|brackets=on}}
 * nay
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=14th c|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|chapter=w:The Clerk's Tale|year_published=1870|editor=D. Laing Purves|title={{w|The Canterbury Tales}} and Faerie Queene, with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mVoCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA100&dq=%22no%20nay%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjaxpnv5KDYAhWOUd8KHbm-AKIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22no%20nay%22&f=false|page=100|text=And my povert' no wight nor can nor may Make comparison, it is no nay.}}
 * nouch
 * one
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Workes|Boetius|passage=Toldyng of temporell ordinaunce, assembled and oned in the lokyng of the Divine thoughte}}
 * pan
 * 1) * 14th century,, {{w|The Canterbury Tales}}: The Friar's Tale,
 * piping hot
 * port
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=late 14th c.|author=Chaucer|title=Canterbury Tales|chapter=General Prologue|section=line 69|passage=And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.}}
 * pured
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|passage=pured gold}}
 * 2) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|passage=bread of pured wheat}}
 * recreant
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1387|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=w:Canterbury Tales|section=Part 3: "The Parson's Tale"|text=Soothly, he that despeireth hym is lyk The coward champious recreant, that seith, Creant withoute nede, allas! akkas! bedekes us He recreant and nedelees despeired. [Translation by Larry D. Benson from Riverside Chaucer: Truly, he that despairs himself is like the cowardly defeated champion, who says "I surrender" without need. Alas, alas, needless is he defeated and needless in despair.]}}
 * renovelance
 * rubify
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|passage=waters rubifying}}
 * sad
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|Clerk's Tale|xlix|verso=yes|column=2|line=4|{{...}}ſadde and rype corage{{...}}}}
 * sallow
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|The Wife of Bath's Prologue|lines=655-658|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Prologue_and_Tale|text=Who-so that buildeth his hous al of salwes, And priketh his blinde hors over the falwes, And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes, Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes!}}
 * sentence
 * 1) * 1387–1400,, Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:
 * shed
 * 1) * c. 1380,, {{w|Boece (Chaucer)|Boece}}{{attention|en|This is Middle English (enm); should be moved there}}
 * 2) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|Monk's Tale|passage=swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde}}
 * shrew
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|Nun Priest's Tale|passage=I shrew myself.}}
 * singular
 * 1) * {{rfc-sense|en|See template's message ((please specify the story), (please specify |volume=I, II, or III)) + Chaucer is Middle English (enm)}} {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|year=1860|Canon Yeoman's Tale|passage=And God forbid that all a company / Should rue a singular manne's folly.}}
 * smock
 * 1) * 14th century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
 * spill
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|Man of Law's Tale|passage=That thou wilt suffer innocence to spill.}}
 * steer
 * stoke
 * 1) *{{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|version=Hg|title=Knight's Tale|folio=34|url=https://viewer.library.wales/4628556#?#&cv=78&xywh=94%2C444%2C1789%2C1830|lines=1688–1691|passage=Ne short swerd for to stoke with point bityng / No man ne drawe ne bere it by his syde / Ne no man shal un to his felawe ryde / But o cours with a sharp ygrounde spere|t=No man shall draw a short sword with a sharpened point for piercing thrusts, nor will bear any such weapon by his side. Neither shall any man ride toward his opponent with a sharp-ground spear more than once.}}
 * stound
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1883|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=Cassell's Library of English Literature|chapter=w:The Clerk's Tale|volume=1|page=48|url=https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=L9C1lpAhajQC&pg=PA48-IA2 |editor=Henry Morley|origyear=a. 1400|passage=And in that same stound / All suddenly she swapt adown to ground.}}
 * tailing
 * tapiser
 * 1) {{rfc-sense|en|Chaucer is Middle English (enm), not English (en)}} A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer.
 * thack
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|title=Friar's Tale|folio=xliiii|column=2|passage=This carter thacked his horſe on y&#868; croupe / And they begon to drawe and to ſtoupe|translation=This carter thwacked is horse on the croup / And they began to draw and to stoop|termlang=en|brackets=on}}
 * thereagain
 * 1) * 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 1870, D. Laing Purves (editor), The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene, with Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser, page 85,
 * thrall
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|The Physician's Tale|text=My servant, which that is my thrall by right}}
 * thrift
 * thwack
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|year=1860|title=Friar's Tale|volume=II|page=49|lines=7141–7142|passage=This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop.|translation=This carter thrashes his horse upon the croup, / And they began to draw and to stoop.|termlang=en|brackets=on}}
 * turney
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|Knight's Tale|passage=What Tilts and Turneys at the Feast were seen}}
 * unbody
 * unusage
 * venerean
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|passage=I am all venerean in feeling}}
 * Virginia
 * 1) * 1380s-1390s, {{w|Geoffrey Chaucer}}, The Canterbury Tales: The Physician's Tale
 * volage
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1390|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|chapter=The Manciple's Prologue and Tale|title=w:The Canterbury Tales
 * wern
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|passage=He is too great a niggard that will wern/ A man to light a candle at his lantern.}}
 * wicked tongue
 * 1) * {{circa|1395}}, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (modern translation), The Manciple's Tale:
 * winning
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|Man of Law's Tale|passage=Ye seeke land and sea for your winnings.}}
 * wis
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=c. 1368-1372|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=s:The Book of the Duchess|passage=As wis God help me.}}
 * woodbind
 * 1) * {{RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales|Knight's Tale|passage=a gerlond {{...}} of woodbind or of hauthorn leaves}}

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#*  The alestake of medieval taverns was mounted horizontally from the wall of zthe building. The term is not in current use. Modern aleposts can be set vertically in the ground or be attached horizontally to the pub and carry a painted sign rather than a garland. #*  The earliest English form appears to be “right as diverse pathes leden the folk the righte wey to Rome”, in  (Prologue, ll. 39–40), 1391, by. #*  *  (obsolete) #*  #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   #*   {{attention|en|If the only quotes are from Chaucer isn't this really a Middle English lemma?}} * He nevere yet no vilaynie ne sayde. Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales The highlighted terms create a triple negative. * {{alter|en|fawn||in Chaucer and Keats}} * Earliest use of metaphor by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales: Prologue (1483) as "fissh that is waterlees". |passage=Chaucer gave a free rein to his poetical mirth}} {{attention|en|senses 2 and 3 may be Middle English--they had requests for quotes from Chaucer}} 17th century. First attested in {{w|Elisha Coles}}' An English Dictionary (1676). From {{compound|en|glim|flashy|gloss1=eye|gloss2=flashing}}. Figurative of someone's eyes flashing with anger. Proverbs 16:27 may have inspired St. Jerome to write in the late 4th century: fac et aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum, or “engage in some occupation, so that the devil may always find you busy.” This was later repeated by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, which was probably the source of its popularity. * 1955: Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard Middlewood Wilson, Simon Bredon, Derek John de Solla Price, and Peterhouse (University of Cambridge) Library, The Equatorie of the Planetis, page 161 (Cambridge University Press) |passage=This material was largely used, as Chaucer tells us that the knights&#39; jambers were of cuir bouilli; and from many {{...}}}} Apparently from Chaucer. In Early Modern English, used at least 150 times by William Shakespeare; in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, {{m|enm|me thinketh}}; and in Old English by Alfred the Great, {{m|ang|mē þyncþ}}. Compare synonymous German {{m|de|mir}} {{m|de|dünkt}}, Old Norse {{m|non|mér}} {{m|non|þykkir}} (Icelandic {{m|is|mér}} {{m|is|þykir}}). As used in {{w|The Monk's Tale}}, one of the {{w|Canterbury Tales}} by Geoffrey Chaucer. The phrase murder will out, literally "murder will become public", appears as far back as Geoffrey Chaucer's works. The phrase is often linked to the superstition that a murderer's presence near the corpse will be indicated by fresh bleeding. (The moon was up, and shot a gleamy light) He saw a quire of ladies in a round, That featly footing seem'd to skim the ground;}} From {{inh|en|enm|outridere}}. Variant of {{m|en|prune}} (by influence of {{m|en|preen}} above). Attested in Chaucer (c. 1395) in the variants preyneth, prayneth, proyneth, prunyht, pruneth, from {{der|en|fro|proignier||to trim the feathers with the beak}}. |passage={{...}} not a rill of water but crept from its hiding place, under banks entangled with briers and weeds, or thickly set with their clusters of primeroles (to use old Chaucer's word for that palest and prettiest of yellow flowers) {{...}}}} |passage=Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal.}} #*: Twiti's discussion of hunting deer with bow and a pack of greyhounds (or “stably”) to drive them past the waiting archers is similar, for example, to that in Gawain and the Green Knight, and such hunting practices are referred to in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The Franklin's Tale. From {{inh|en|enm|textewell}}, {{m|enm|textueel}}, {{m|enm|textuel}}, {{m|enm|textuele}}, {{m|enm|tixtuel|t=learned in texts, bookish}}, possibly from {{der|en|la|textuālis}}; also compare {{cog|frm|textuele}}; or perhaps a coinage by Chaucer from {{der|en|la|textus}} and {{der|en|enm|-el}}. English spelling conformed to Latin from late 15c. |passage=The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).}}
 * Alan
 * alestake
 * Alison
 * all roads lead to Rome
 * ambidextry
 * ambsace
 * archwife
 * arrant
 * as I live and breathe
 * aside
 * assay
 * aswoon
 * avail
 * behest
 * belive
 * 1) * 1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321:
 * benim
 * beweep
 * bitched
 * blee
 * brittle
 * castigate
 * chevy
 * Constance
 * cull
 * daunting
 * defeat
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=1879|author=w:Adolphus Ward|chapter=Chaucer|title=w:English Men of Letters
 * digne
 * double negative
 * drift
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=216|passage=Besides, you lack the brains to catch my drift. / If I explained you wouldn't understand.}}
 * emancipate
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=1879|author=w:Adolphus Ward|chapter=Chaucer|title=w:English Men of Letters
 * eternal
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1700|author=John, transl. Dryden|chapter=w:Palamon and Arcite|title=w:Fables, Ancient and Modern|original=w:The Knight's Tale|by=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|origyear=c. 1387–1400|passage=Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.}}
 * faun
 * fish out of water
 * forweep
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=1870|author=Geoffrey Chaucer; David Laing Purves; Edmund Spenser|title=The Canterbury tales and Faerie queene
 * free rein
 * gaud
 * glimflashy
 * gloze
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=279|passage=Of what were generative organs made? / And for what profit were those creatures wrought? / [...] / Gloze as you will and plead the explanation / That they were only made for the purgation / Of urine, little things of no avail / Except to know a female from a male {{...}}}}
 * goliardery
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=1957|author=Charles Muscatine|title=Chaucer and the French Tradition|page=251|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pFD86ef3Z7EC&pg=PA251&dq=%22goliardery%22&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22goliardery%22&f=false|passage=The medieval Latin equivalent of a "bourgeois" tradition is to be seen variously in comedy, goliardery, and satire, and in epistolary and expository prose.}}
 * gramercy
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|chapter=Transition English: From the Conquest to Chaucer.—{{smallcaps|a.d.}} 1666 to {{smallcaps|a.d.}} 1352 &#91;{{w|Sir Cleges}}.&#93;|editor=w:Henry Morley|title=Shorter English Poems|series=Cassell’s Library of English Literature|location=London; Paris|publisher=Cassell & Company,{{nb...|Limited: London, Paris & New York.}}|year=late 14th – early 15th century|year_published=c. 1870s|page=28|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/shorterenglishpo00morl/page/28/mode/1up|column=2|lines=409–412|oclc=913043678|passage=Gramércy, liegé King, / This is to me a comforting: / I tell you sickerly / For to have land or lede / Or other riches, so God me speed, / It is too much for me.|footer={{small|The spelling was modernized by the editor.}}|brackets=on}}
 * Griselda
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|chapter=Chaucer's Envoy to the Clerk's Tale|passage=Husbands, be not so hardy as to assail The patience of your wives in hope to find Griseldas, for you certainly will fail.}}
 * Groom of the Stool
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Seth Lerer|chapter=Pretexts: Chaucer’s {{w|Pandarus}} and the Origins of Courtly Discourse|title=Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit|location=Cambridge|publisher=w:Cambridge University Press|year=1997|page=22|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3790D5cDIEC&pg=PA22|isbn=978-0-521-59001-3|passage=As {{w|David Starkey}} has delineated in great detail, one of Henry [VIII]'s major administrative achievements was the centralization of court administration in a collection of younger gentry in bodily service to the King. Grooms of the Chamber, Grooms of the Stool, Esquires of the Body – these were the titles granted men who ministered to Henry's private functions, and as Starkey argues, it is this new sense of intimacy that recalibrates the English body politic into a politics of the King's body.}}
 * groundly
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=[anonymous]|editors=Frederick J[ames] Furnivall; Walter G. Stone|title=The Tale of Beryn, with a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury. {{...|Re-edited from the Duke of Northumberland’s Unique MS, by Frederick J. Furnivall, M.A., Trin[ity] Hall, Cambridge, and Walter G. Stone, Esq.}} Part I.{{nb...|With a Map of Canterbury in 1588 from W. Smith’s Unique MS, and Ogilby’s Plan of the Road from London to Canterbury in 1675.}}|series=Chaucer Society, Supplementary Canterbury Tales|seriesvolume=1|location=London|publisher=For the Chaucer Society by N[icholas] Trübner & Co.,{{nb...|57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, London.}}|year=15th century|year_published=1876|lines=4001–4002|page=120|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IqNIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA120|oclc=1013416072|passage={{...}} Isope cast his chere to Beryn so groundly, / That atte last there was no man with Isope so pryvy:{{nb...}}|brackets=on}}
 * hosen
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=2014|author=Geoffrey Chaucer|title=The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems|passage=[...] and the shape of the horrible swollen members, that seem like to the malady of hernia, in the wrapping of their hosen, and eke the buttocks of them, [...]}}
 * hyem
 * 1) * 1985, David Wright tr. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
 * idle hands are the devil's workshop
 * introitus
 * inure
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=465|passage=Your insults to myself can be endured, / I am a philosopher and am inured. / But there are insults that I will not swallow / That you have levelled at our gods.}}
 * jamber
 * japeworthy
 * juggler
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1841|title=The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer|author=Geoffrey Chaucer; Richard H. Horne|page=320|oclc=|passage=So far we may follow the 'clerk,' but he subsequently shows himself to be a juggler, and not a worker by regular natural science.}}
 * knave
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=204|passage=God's bones! Whenever I go to beat those knaves / my tapsters, out she [my wife] comes with clubs and staves, / "Go on!" she screams — and it's a caterwaul — / "You kill those dogs! Break back and bones and all!"}}
 * lady-in-waiting
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=Joanne Mattern|editor=Dona Herweck Rice|chapter=A Life at Court|title=: Medieval Writer|location=Huntington Beach, Calif.|publisher=Teacher Created Materials|year=2013|page=14|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-G3PxGKMS1EC&pg=PP14|isbn=978-1-4333-5006-1|passage=Young girls from wealthy families were often sent to the royal court to help the queen and noblewomen. After becoming a teenager, a girl could then be named a lady-in-waiting. These ladies assisted their mistress in any way and usually went with her when she traveled.}}
 * lathe
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=w:Walter William Skeat|title=Notes on The Canterbury Tales. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 5|page=124|text={{...}}lathe, a barn, is still used in some parts of Yorkshire, but chiefly in local designations, being otherwise obsolescent ; see the Cleveland and Whitby glossaries. ‘The northern man writing to his neighbor may say, “My lathe standeth neer the kirkegarth,” for My barn standeth neere the churchyard’|origyear=1894}}
 * lede
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|chapter=Transition English: From the Conquest to Chaucer.—{{smallcaps|a.d.}} 1066 to {{smallcaps|a.d.}} 1352 &#91;{{w|Sir Cleges}}.&#93;|editor=w:Henry Morley|title=Shorter English Poems|series=Cassell’s Library of English Literature|location=London; Paris|publisher=Cassell & Company,{{nb...|Limited: London, Paris & New York.}}|year=c. 1870s|page=28|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/shorterenglishpo00morl/page/28/mode/1up|column=2|lines=409–412|oclc=913043678|passage=Gramércy, liegé King, / This is to me a comforting: / I tell you sickerly / For to have land or lede / Or other riches, so God me speed, / It is too much for me.|footer={{small|Spelling modernized by the editor from a late-14th – early-15th-century text.}}}}
 * linguister
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1871|author=w:James Russell Lowell|chapter=Chaucer|title=My Study Windows|location=London|publisher=S. Low, Son, and Marston|page=196|url=https://archive.org/details/mystudywindows00lowerich/page/196/mode/1up?q=linguisters
 * loth
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|chapter=The Pardoner’s Tale|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=274|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/canterburytales1977chau/page/274/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-14-044022-5|passage=And, as it happened, reaching up for a sup, / He took a bottle full of poison up / And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, / Drank from it also, and they perished both.}}
 * maidenhead
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=363|passage=My lord,{{...}}/ I brought you nothing else it may be said / But faith and nakedness and maidenhead.}}
 * methinks
 * Monk's Tale stanza
 * murder will out
 * noon of night
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1700|author=w:John Dryden|chapter=The Wife of Bath, Her Tale|title=w:Fables, Ancient and Modern|original=w:The Wife of Bath's Tale|by=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|lines=213–216|passage=When full before him, at the noon of night,
 * obsequy
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1478|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=w:The Canterbury Tales|passage=And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes y&#877; were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe.|t=And to the ladies he restored again / The bodies of their husbands that were slain / To do obsequies as then was the custom.}}
 * orature
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:William Godwin|chapter=Sequel to Troilus and Creseide by Robert Henryson.—Tragedy of Shakepear on the Subject.|title=Life of {{w|Geoffrey Chaucer}}, the Early English Poet:{{nb...|Including Memoirs of His Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: With Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century.}} In Four Volumes|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Printed by T[homas] Davison,{{nb...|White-Friars}}; for Richard Phillips,{{nb...|No. 71, St. Paul's Church-yard.}}|year=1804|volume=I|pages=489–490|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/lifeofgeoffreych01godw/page/490/mode/1up|oclc=926820841|passage=The author [of the poem Testament of Faire Creseide, {{w|Robert Henryson}}] has conceived in a very poetical manner his description of the season in which he supposes himself to have written this dolorous tragedy. The sun was in Aries; his setting was ushered in with furious storms of hail; the cold was biting and intense; and the poet sat in a solitary little building which he calls his "orature." [footnote: oratory.]}}
 * originatrix
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=Jerome Mandel|chapter=Preface|title=Geoffrey Chaucer: Building the Fragments of the Canterbury Tales|publisher=w:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|year=1992|page=12|isbn=0-8386-3454-0|passage=I live with three very interesting women. I want to thank them here for providing infinite hours of comic entertainment. I have singled out one of them, the originatrix of the other two and instigatrix of most of the fun, in the dedication.}}
 * outrider
 * overbear
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=287|passage=I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.}}
 * pachycephaly
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1990 |title=Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: An Annotated Bibliography|author=Caroline D. Eckhardt; Dorothy E. Smith |page=383 |ISBN=|passage=The Miller breaks doors with his head (lines 550-51). This claim is feasible, for several nineteenth- and twentieth-century men are know to have performed similar feats. Thus 'we may be sure that between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries stretched a long, thick-set line of heroes whose pachycephaly was exploited to stir the wonder and respect of their less gifted fellows' (p 419).}}
 * parlous
 * 1) * {{RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works|volume=III|chapter=&#91;Tales from [Geoffrey] Chaucer&#93; The Wife of Bath, Her Tale|page=222|passage=This Midas knew: and durſt communicate / To none but to his wife his ears of ſtate: / One muſt be truſted, and he thought her fit, / As paſſing prudent, and a parlous wit.}}
 * payndemain
 * 1) * 1914, Charles Sears Baldwin (quoting Geoffrey Chaucer, An Introduction to English Medieval Literature, p. 215:
 * pecunial
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=2003|translator=Ronald L. Ecker|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=The Canterbury Tales|page=157|publisher=Penguin Books
 * penitencer
 * 1) * 1875, Clarke, Charles Cowden, The Canterbury tales of Chaucer, with notes by T. Tyrwhitt, Cassell Petter & Galpin, page 288:
 * philosopher
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=1813|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title={{w|The Canterbury Tales}}: {{w|The Canon's Yeoman's Tale}}
 * pinch
 * 1) * 1809, {{w|Alexander Chalmers}} ed. The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper, Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to {{w|Geoffrey Chaucer}}, "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":
 * plough
 * 1) * c. 1350, {{w|Geoffrey Chaucer}} (attributed), {{w|The Tale of Gamelyn}}
 * preen
 * primerole
 * redress
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Dryden|chapter={{w|Palamon and Arcite}}; or, {{w|The Knight's Tale}}. From [Geoffrey] Chaucer.|editor=w:Thomas Park|title=Fables from Bocaccio and Chaucer: [...] In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions: [...]|series=The Works of the British Poets: Including Translations from the Greek and Roman Authors|location=London|publisher=Printed at the Stanhope Press, by {{w|Charles Whittingham}}, Union Buildings, {{w|Leather Lane}}; for John Sharpe, opposite York-House, {{w|Piccadilly}}|year=1806|volume=I|section=book I|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=u7ZKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25|oclc=935782020|passage=Nor envy we / Thy great reknown, nor grudge thy victory; / 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress, / And fame has fill'd the world with thy success: {{...}}}}
 * rhyme royal
 * saffron
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|title=Geoffrey Chaucer: Building the Fragments of the Canterbury Tales|author=Jerome Mandel|year=1992|passage=He saffrons his speech with Latin which he knows all by rote.}}
 * so help me God
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|chapter=Wife of Bath's Prologue|passage=He came up close and kneeling gently down He said, "My love, my dearest Alison, So help me God, I never again will hit You, love; and if I did, you asked for it.}}
 * stably
 * succour
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:John Skelton|chapter=A Little Boke of Philip Sparow|title=The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; {{...|Including the Series Edited, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: And the Most Approved Translations. The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.}} In Twenty-one Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for J[oseph] Johnson [et al.]|year=a. 1530|year_published=1810|volume=II|page=297|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dPYSAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA297|column=1|oclc=457440867|passage=[M]y maystres / Of whome I thinke / With pen and ynke / For to compyle / Some goodly stile / For thys moste goodly floure / The blossom of fresh colour / So Jupiter me succour}}
 * supercharacter
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1988 |title=Geoffrey Chaucer's The knight's tale|author=Harold Bloom  |page=53 |ISBN= |passage=His separate existence, indeed, is now superfluous: the conflict over, his better qualities are incorporated in the lover who survives, the more mature stage of the supercharacter Palamon-Arcite-Emetreus-Lygurge. }}
 * suspicion
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=1879|author=w:Adolphus William Ward|title=Chaucer
 * swop
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=315|passage='We make a pair, by God and by St James! / But, brother, what do you say to swopping names?'}}
 * tercelet
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1999|author=Geoffrey Lester|title=Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays|page=110|passage=In the Squire's Tale this is expressed in avian terms when the tercelet flies off with a kite;}}
 * textual
 * tortuous
 * 1) * {{quote-text|en|year=1872|author=w:Walter William Skeat|title=Chaucer's A Treatise on the Astrolabe
 * uninflected
 * 1) * 1955: Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard Middlewood Wilson, Simon Bredon, Derek John de Solla Price, and Peterhouse (University of Cambridge) Library, The Equatorie of the Planetis, page 161 (Cambridge University Press)
 * unreliable narrator
 * 1) * {{quote-journal|en|author=Charles A. Watkins|title=Chaucer’s Sweete Preest|editors=Earl R. Wasserman; et al.|journal={{w|ELH}} [English Literary History]|location=Baltimore, Md.|publisher=The Johns Hopkins Press|month=September|year=1969|volume=36|issue=3|page=463|doi=10.2307/2872405|issn=0013-8304|oclc=879705549|passage=The Priest also places a moral barrier between himself and his tale by establishing himself as an "unreliable narrator" capable of deception and irony. Thus, through his habit of speaking equivocally, he can disavow responsibility for his frequently provocative words.}}
 * uphold
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|year=1899|author=John Dryden; Geoffrey Chaucer; Percival Chubb|title=Dryden's Palamon and Arcite|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=2GIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA258|page=5|passage=The mournful train/ Echoed her grief, [...]/ With groans, and hands upheld, to move his mind, /Besought his pity to their helpless kind}}
 * Venus
 * wantonry
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=200|chapter=The Tale of Sir Topaz|passage=Now hold your tongues for charity, / my nobles knights and ladies free, / And listen to my spell, / To battle and to chivalry / And making love in wantonry / For such is what I tell.}}
 * wheedle
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|tlr=w:Nevill Coghill|title=The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English|series=w:Penguin Classics|publisher=w:Penguin Books|year=1951|year_published=1977|page=290|chapter=The Wife of Bath's Tale|passage=Though he had beaten me in every bone / He still could wheedle me to love.}}
 * woe betide
 * 1) * {{quote-book|en|author=[William Pittis]|chapter=The Non-juring Clergyman|title=Chaucer’s Whims: Being Some Select Fables and Tales in Verse, Very Applicable to the Present Times; [...]|location=London|publisher={{...|Printed by}} D. Edwards,{{nb...|and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster.}}|year=1701|page=8|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=re5bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA8|oclc=15543127|passage=Woe betide the Subſcribers, their Children and Wives, / This Action ſhall coſt 'em five hundred Folks Lives.}}