nercotikes

Middle English

Etymology

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Noun

nercotikes

1. narcotics
   • 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales,

     For he hade yeve his gayler drynke so
     Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn,
     With nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn, […]

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