Ge-gaf-sprǽc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-gaf-sprǽc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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ge-gaf-sprǽc
f. Idle, wanton, scoffing speech :-- Dá wæs seó tunge teartlícor gewítnod for his gegafspræce then was the tongue more sharply punished for his wanton speech, Homl. Th. i. 330, 34. Men willaþ bysmorlíce plegian and mid gegafspræcum Godes hús gefýlan men will play shamefully and defile God's house with wanton speeches, L. Ælfc. C. 35; Th. ii. 357 note, 3.

Related words: gaf. ge-gaf-spræc,gegaf-spræc

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