gadeling
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling. By surface analysis, gade + -ling.
Noun
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.
Descendants
- English: gadling
- Scots: gedling, getling