avetrol

Middle English

Etymology

Perhaps from Old French avoistre.

Noun

avetrol (plural avetrols)

1. bastard; illegitimate child
   • 1810, Henry William Weber, Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries, page 114; quoting the Middle English text Kyng Alisaunder (c.1300), lines 2,690–2,696

     […] “ Alisaunder !” thrye,
     
     “ Whar artow, horesone ! whar ?
     
     “ An hore to Amon the bar :
     
     “ Thou avetrol, thou foule wreche,
     
     “ Here thou hast thyn eyndyng feched !
     
     “ Com, and geve us on justyng,
     
     “ And thow schalt have hard metyng.”

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References

• “avetrōl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.