enculȝe
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Scots
[edit]Noun
[edit]enculȝe (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) coaxing
- c. 1390, “St Thecla”, in William Musham Metcalfe, editor, Legends of the saints: in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century, published 1896:
- Quhen he saw he sped nathing for his enculȝe or entysing.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]- The word is only recorded once and the precise meaning is uncertain.
References
[edit]- "† enculȝe, n.". OED Online. March 2013. Oxford University Press. 25 March 2013 [1]