Middle English Dictionary Entry
flǒunder n.
Entry Info
| Forms | flǒunder n. Also flundre, flondir. |
| Etymology | Cp. MLG vlunder, Norw. & Swed. flundra. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A flatfish, esp. the flounder; (b) as a name.
Associated quotations
a
- (1304-5) MSS Middleton in HMC325 : In codling et in flundr' emptis, xij d.
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52159/25 : Clerico coquine..pro crabbes et floundrez.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)103 : That non regratour in the forseid market take out of paner plays, solys, floundrys, elys, ne non other maner of fyssh..aȝeyn the wil of hem that owyn the fissh.
- ?a1450 Arderne LW (Em 69)110 : It [facial paralysis] turneth the mouth of the manne..downe to the ere in the manner of a ffysche that is called a ffloundre.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)15 : For the perche, the flounder, þe breme, with a lyne of iiij herys.
- a1475 Herkyn to my tale (Brog 2.1)85 : The borbottus and the stykylbakys, the flondyre and the loche.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)819 : Flowndurs, gogeons, muskels, menuce in sewe.
- a1500 PFulham (Jas 43)76 : But now men on deyntes so hem delyte To fede hem vpon the fysches lyte, As flowndres, perches, and suche pykyng ware.
b
- (1319) Pat.R.Edw.II266 : [William de Werdale, master of a ship called] le Flundre.