Middle English Dictionary Entry
spik n.
Entry Info
| Forms | spik n. Also spike, (early) spic, spich & (in place name) spiche-. |
| Etymology | OE spic; also cp. ON: cp. OI spik. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Animal fat, esp. lard; (b) in surnames and place names [see Smith PNElem.2.137].
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)25/2 : Ad jnflationem gutturis..nim ele and meng þarto, oþþer spic, ȝif man ele nabbe, and do þarto.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)12195 : Þer com spic and water and aten vnimete.
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)547/45 : Lardum: spic.
- ?a1300 11 Pains(1) (Dgb 86)404/132 : Wimmen..beþ forþer Idon þat nowiit nabbeþ hem houpon: hem me drepeþ wiþ þe pich, sso þe brede wiþ þe spich.
- (1405) in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10)8.404 : Ipsi fuerint mercatorie..cum diversis Mercandisis videlicet..Anguillis, Spik Porcorum, Braseo, & Farina.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)469 : Spyk, or fet flesche [KC: spike of fleshe]: Popa.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)12345 : Dynabrok..sat, Rostyng a swyn gret & fat..his berd þer-wiþ al lothen & al to-soilled wyþ þe spyk; I trowe þat syght was ful loþlyk.
b
- (1167) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)528 : Spikeswic.
- (1170-96) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)528 : Spichewiche.
- (1218-19) Nickname in LuSE 55167 : Hug. Spikfot.
- (1244) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)528 : Spikewyk.
- (1287-8) Leet R.Norwich in Seld.Soc.52 : Johannes Spik.
- (1306) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)528 : Spycheswyk.
- (1327) Nickname in LuSE 55167 : Joh. Spikfat.
- 1662(1278-9) Bk.Vale Royal in LCRS 68 (Hrl 2064)202 : Adam Sourspich.