gadeling
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Middle English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling. By surface analysis, gade + -ling.
Noun
[edit]gadeling (plural gadelings)
- gadling, vagabond
- c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 937-8.
- These bowes two held Swete-Loking,
That seemed lyk no gadeling.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 937-8.
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