down-gyved

See also: downgyved

English

Alternative forms

• downgyved

Etymology

From down (“from a higher position to a lower one”) +‎ gyved (“to shackle, fetter, chain”). A Shakespearan coinage.

Adjective

down-gyved (not comparable)

1. (poetic, obsolete) Hanging down, like gyves or fetters.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 77:

     his stockings fouled, / Ungartered and down-gyved to his ankle,

Synonyms

• dangling, hanging, pendulous