open-ers
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English openears; equivalent to open + ers.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
open-ers (plural open-erses) (rare)
- The fruit of the common medlar (Crataegus germanica, syn. Mespilus germanica)
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘Reeve's Prologue’, Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere manuscript):
- But if I fare as dooth an Openers / That ilke fruyt is euer leng the wers / Til it be roten in Mullok or in stree [...].
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘Reeve's Prologue’, Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere manuscript):
Descendants[edit]
- English: open-arse
References[edit]
- “ō̆pen-ars, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-19.
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