Gilp-georn

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gilp-georn

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gilp-georn
Add: (1) in a favourable sense, vainglorious, arrogant, proud, boastful. Cf. lof-georn :-- Men beód ofergrǣdige woruldgestreóna and tō manege weordaþ tō wlance and ealles tō rance and tō gylpgeorne erunt homines cupidi, elati, superbi; men shall be covetous, boasters, proud (2 Tim. 3, 2), Wlfst. 81, 15. Ne beón gē tō rance ne tō gylpgeorne, 40, 19. See next word. gilp-georn

Related words: Dict. (2) in an un-favourable sense,

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