Ycleped
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ycleped is an adjective meaning Alternative spelling of yclept.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of yclept.
Example Sentences
The event is described in the metrical history of Rouen, composed by a minstrel ycleped Poirier, the limper.
There is a tall long-sided Dame, / (But wondrous light) ycleped Fame, / That like a thin Camelion Bourds / He[r] self on Air, and eats her words: […]
The damsel, ycleped Louisa, made rather a shame-faced obeisance, and her old grandmother went on to inform me that she had only lately been forgiven by the overseer for an attempt to run away from the plantation.
Sometimes in consequence of some flagrant villany, he would abscond from the garrison, […] squatting himself down on the edge of a pond catching fish for hours together, and bearing no little resemblance to that notable bird ycleped the Mud-poke.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cliched, bikeable, linteled, be-legginged, addle-pated, clechy.
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