Lyffetere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Lyffetere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

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1 lyffetere

m. A flatterer :-- Lyffetere adulator, Wrt. Voc. 85, 40. Liffetere, 49, 14. Ðonne ádumbiaþ ða ýdelan lyffeteras then shall the vain flatterers be dumb, Homl. Th. ii. 570, 35. Faraþ tó ðám lyffeterum ðe eów ǽr leáslíce ólæhton go to the flatterers that before fawned on you falsely, 570, 23: i. 494, 10. lyffetere

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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