Big-cwide

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - big-cwide

According to the Old English Dictionary:

bí-cwide, es;

big-cwide
m. [be, big by; cwide a saying] A by-saying, by-word, proverb, fable, tale; proverbium, fabula :-- Ge forwurðaþ þurh bigspell and bigcwidas eris perditus in proverbium et fabulam, Deut. 28, 37. Bícwide proverbium, Pro

Related words: 22. big-cwide

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