Middle English Dictionary Entry
maddok n.
Entry Info
| Forms | maddok n. Also maddock & (early) maðek & (?errors) maddolk, mazek. |
| Etymology | ?OE; cp. OE maða, OI maðkr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An earthworm; (b) a bedbug; (c) a maggot.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)87/30 : Isculi..lumbrici terreni..angl. angeltwychches uel maddokkes.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)44/18 : Oile of rosis, in þe which oile maddockis -- þat ben wormes of þe erþe -- han be boilid.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)258/832 : And thou may haue maddokkys, take þe knotts that growith abouth the worme & stamp wt oþer thynges, and this is a souereyn stoppynge.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)210 : Item, Euytes eyron & maddolkes..stampe to geder, & boyle hem after in oyle.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)594/3 : Lumbricus: a maddock.
- a1500 Sln.521 Recipes (Sln 521)141/1 : Reed wormes, i-callyd maddokkys.
b
- a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)15 : Cinices: mazekes.
c
- a1250 SWard (Tit D.18)13/105 : Luðere hellewurmes..as maðekes [Bod: meaðen] in forroted flesch.