Hócor

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hócor

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 hócor

m. [?] Mockery, scorn, insult, derision :-- Tó oft man mid hócere góddǽda hyrweþ too often good deeds are depreciated with derision, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 110, 162. [O. E. Hom. to lusten hoker: Laym. hoker and scarn: Chauc. hoker and bissemare.] hocor

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚩᚳᚩᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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