dronkelewe
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Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dronkelewe
- Given to drinking alcohol; drunken.
- 1387, Chaucer, “v. 382”, in The Tale of Melibee[1]:
- Thou shalt also eschue the conseiling of folk that been dronkelewe, for they ne kan no conseil hyde.
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