Middle English Dictionary Entry
mū̆sard n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mū̆sard n. Also musarde, muserde, mosard, mossard, moserd. |
| Etymology | OF musart & musarde. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) As a term of contempt: fool, dolt; idler; villain, wretch; (b) as surname [some early instances may be French].
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Rich.(Auch)117/122 : No haue ȝe no dotaunce Of þe Inglische cowardes For þai no be bot mossardes.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)380 : Ich wene þou art a fole musard!
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.229 : Comen is þe Sarazin..Clad in cloþes fyn; himself is a mosard.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.266 : Pape Celestyn..With letter bulled..to Scotlond sent..A vileyine þami þouht, to mak þam duze pers, Desherite Edward of all his seignorie, Of Jon Baliol musard suilk was his curteysie.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4034 : Alle men wole holde thee for musard [F musart]..It sittith thee nought curteis to be.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)79 : Amoneste thilke musard that his staf he ley adoun.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)41/14 : These fendes..was on her hedes..that clatered..and thought more on her iolytees and the worldes delite, and to haue the loke of the musardes [F musars], thanne thei dede of the seruice of God.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)6881 : Syt still, thow foole moserd!
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)183 : We ne do but as musardes [F chi fors muser a la folie] and ne a-wayte nought elles but whan we shall be take as a bridde in a nette.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)454 : He douted euer that debate sholde a-rise amonge his felowes thourgh the dedes of some musarde.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)582 : The saisnes may not sein a-monge theym that thei haue vs founde foles ne musardes [F maluais].
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)5537 : Musarde, fole, me shall not haue surely.
- 1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)7560 : Thou her watchest at the gate, With speare in thyn arest alway; There muse, musard, al the day.
b
- (1161-2) Pipe R.Hen.II2 : Hascuil Musard.
- (1205) Pipe R.Cum.Wm.Dur.in SANT (1847)117 : Will. Musard.
- (1228) Close R.Hen.III68 : Radulfo Musard.
- (1254) R.Knight's Fees in Archaeol.Cant.12206 : Ricardi Musarde.
- (1275) Hundred R.Tower 2187 : Alanus Musard.
- (1297) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 16134 : Willelmus Musard.
- (1300-1) Let.Bk.Lond.B (Gldh LetBk B)102 : John Musard.