Citations:godsip

English citations of godsip

1881, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha, page 165:
Seeing that he was not to be found, said the alderman who had seen him to the other, 'Look ye, godsip, a plan has come into my mind by which we may […] '
1963, Paul M. Zall, A Hundred Merry Tales: And Other English Jestbooks of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press:
Upon the which, the fox leaped and showed to the wolf the shadow of the moon which reluced³ in the well, and said to him: "Look now, godsip,⁴ how […] "
2010, Susan E. Phillips, Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England, Penn State Press (→ISBN), page 161:
Ever the schemer, he attempted to capitalize upon the bishop of Winchester's intimacy with his ''godsip,'' the duke of Norfolk.
2005, Edmund Curtis, A History of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to 1922, Routledge (→ISBN), page 124:
... being suffered and not controlled, during the government of Richard, Duke of York, his godsip and of Thomas Earl of Kildare his kinsman, ...

1475, letter of John Paston to Edward IV, quoted in 1895, James Gairdner, The Paston Letters: 1422-1509 A.D. A New Ed., Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Letters, Etc., Hitherto Unpublished, page 145:
... wherfor he was fayn to sue to the said Duc and lord by the meanes of his godsip the Bisshop of Wynchestre, whiche was in his special favour; at whos ...