underpicchen
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Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From under- + picchen (“to throw, fix”).
Verb
[edit]underpicchen (past tense and past participle underpight)
- to fill underneath; to prop up
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- He drank , and wel his gurdel underpight
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]Only attested in the past tense and past participle.
References
[edit]- “Underpitch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.