forster

Noun

 * 1) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 116-117:
 * "enm"
 * "enm"

- An horn he bar, the bawdrik was of grene; A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse.

Usage notes

 * This form is a hypercorrection reflecting two Middle English phonological tendencies:
 * The tendency for to be lost before  (especially before ); compare, alternative form of.
 * The tendency for to be lost due to dissimilation before another ; compare, alternative form of.
 * While forms reflective of these trends usually do not prevail in standard Modern English (though note, ), they often survive in dialectal and informal speech; compare , with ,.