Middle English Dictionary Entry
wakin n.
Entry Info
| Forms | wakin n. Also wakone. |
| Etymology | ?From (or related to) MScot. wak moisture & MDu. wac moist. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Some sort of liquid, perh. a thin paste of flour and water; also in a nonsense passage.
Associated quotations
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)140 : Gamodreos…is an hoot herbe…This herbe dronken in wakyn wole deliuere a woman of þe childe þat is dede in here bely.
- a1500 MSerm.Mol.(Adv 19.3.1)83 : Ther he se how the fox prechyd, and charged, and commanded that noo mon schuld be so harde nowdur be day ne be nyȝt for to pysse wakone.