Middle English Dictionary Entry
gul adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | gul adj. Also gulle, goule, gole. |
| Etymology | ON; cp. OI gulr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Yellow, pale; ~ and grene, yellow and green, very sick looking.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)141b/b : Þe Egle is sore i-greued and here wynges waxen white and here clowes goule and feble.
- a1425(?a1350) Nicod.(1) (Glb E.9)70 : Þe iewes all of þat gate wex all ful gul [vr. gulle] and grene.
- ?a1425 Dial.Bern.& V.(1) (RwlPoet 175)269 : For wa I wex both gule & grene.
- c1460 MOTest.(Lngl 257)p.xxi : For greved, both goole [vr. gull] and grene.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)168 : Gulle: pallidus, liuidus, & cetera; vbi wanne.