Middle English Dictionary Entry
chough(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | chough(e n. Also chawȝe, co(o, coue, koo, kow(e, kaue. Pl. choughes, chokwes, choȝen. |
| Etymology | Cp. OF chöe, choue, cau(w)e, OE cīo, OHG kā(ha, Du. kauw, ka, Dan. kaa, all of imitative origin, and variable. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
One of several birds of the crow family: chough, jackdaw, jay; Cornish ~; co-brid.
Associated quotations
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)16a : Þe hen hwen ha haueð ileid, ne con bute cakelin; ah hwet biȝet ha þrof? kimeð þe kaue ananriht & reaueð hire hire eairen.
- c1300 SLeg.Edm.Abp.(Hrl 2277)185 : Blake monekes he seȝ, As hit crowen & choȝen were, fleo bi þ'eir anheȝ.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)59 : La chouve [glossed: co; vrr. co-bird, co-brid, crowe].
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.307 : A poore sowtere fondede to teche a chouȝhe to speke.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.457 : Ravons, crowes and chouȝhes.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.232 : A wys wyf..Shal beren hym on hond the cow is wood.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)141b/a : Foules of raueyne kynde, as chowghes, crowes, rookes, and rauenes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)324a/b : Choughes hunteþ by day and eteþ oule eiren, and þe oule eteþ þe Choughes eyren by night.
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.40 : Chidyng with blasfemie or chyteryng as chowȝes.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)39/3 : The ravenes & the crowes & the choughes & oþer foules of the contree.
- (?c1425) Hoccl.Jonathas (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)38 : Lest wommen vn-to Magge, the good kow [rime: yow], Me likne and thus seye..'see The double man..That hony first yaf and now yeueth galle.'
- c1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)345 : The thef, the chough, and ek the janglynge pye.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)57 : Cadaw or keo or chowghe: Monedula.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)84 : Coo..or schowhe: Monedula, nodula.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)280 : Koo..or schowghe: Monedula.
- a1450 Terms Assoc.(1) (Rwl D.328)603 : A claterynge of chokwes.
- c1460 I warne you (Dub 432)p.293 : The Cornyssh Chowghe..brought forthe all hir brode.
- a1500(a1450) Parton.(1) (Add 35288)10282 : I haue bore you on honde þe cowe was wode; His peyn to avenge it did me good.
- a1500 Today in (Hrl 1002)p.164 : I hyrde the fowles syng..The chawȝe, the cucko, The rooke, the revyn, and the crow.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)702/3 : Hec monedula: a kowe.