Middle English Dictionary Entry
hei-sugge n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hei-sugge n. Also -sug, -soge, -soke, haisok. |
| Etymology | OE hege-sugge |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. hei(e.
1.
The hedge sparrow Prunella modularis.
Associated quotations
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)505 : Þu singst worse þon þe heisugge.
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)612 : Thow mortherere of the heysoge [vrr. heysug, heysugge, haysugge, heysoke] on the braunche.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)577/16 : Curuca: an heysugge.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)8 : Sperhaukes..moste haue tendere mete as Sparrous, eysoges..and oþer smale briddes.
- a1486 Sln.Bk.Hawking (Sln 3488)144 : Thes metes..ben good fore a sike hauke..: Fesaunt and Quayle, Roke, and haysok best of all.
- a1486 Sln.Bk.Hawking (Sln 3488)141 : If she haue the ree..and if hit go into the hede ayen, she is ylost; then fore this euel thou most take and yeue hir an haysok.