chincherye
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]chincherye
- penuriousness; lack of money
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- For right as men blamen an avaricious man bycause of his scarsetee and chincherye / in the same wyse is he to blame that spendeth over largely
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “Chincherie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.