Middle English Dictionary Entry
pautener(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | pautener(e n.(1) Also (?errors) pantener(e. |
| Etymology | OF pautonier |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A rascal, scoundrel, villain.
Associated quotations
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7612 : Oriens was welcome swiþe, For wonderliche þai weren bliþe Of þe eiȝtte & stouers, Þat þai brouȝt, þo pauteners.
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)5/80 : Þe masager False..was, þat pautener.
- c1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)3296 : Now he me wil sle wiþ schenschipe, For þe speche of a losanger, & of a feloun pautener.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)859 : Þou ne askapest noȝt ous, pautener, bot her riȝt þou schalt dye.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5669 : He said til him þat bare þe wite, 'How dare þou sua þi broþer smite!' þan ansuerd him þat pantener [read: pautener; Frf: losenger], 'Sin quen was þou vr dempster?'
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16075 : Up þar stert tua panteners [read: pauteners; Frf: felouns] in middes þat consile.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.333 : Sir Robert þe Brus sent to Sir Eymere, & bad he suld refus þat him had forsaken ilk a pantenere [read: pautenere; F traitours].
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1737 : Wenestou to be my pere? Nay, jwys, wrecche pautenere.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)2526 : I wole asaye þat pawtener [vr. pautynere]; Wiþ myn ax j schal hem ffrape.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)5052 : Þese comen and deden here deuers Agayn þe heþene pawteners [vr. pautenere].
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)268 : A full fell pawtener [F potouner] is he that twies this day thus hath yow smyten to grounde.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)323 : The x Knyghtes..hadde taken mo than x pantoneres [read: pautoneres] that alle weren espies of the Kynge Rion.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)540 : A Knyght all naked in his breche..v pantoners [read: pautoners; F pautounier] dide bete with scorges that the blode ran down by his sides.