Glíwere

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - glíwere

According to the Old English Dictionary:

glíwere
Substitute: I. a jester, buffoon:--Glíwere scurra, Germ. 396, 320. II. one who unworthily aims at pleasing, an obsequious follower, a parasite:--Spilra, glíwera parasitorum (cf. parasitus leás ólecere, Wrt. Voc. i. 74, 36), An. Ox. 679: 6, 13. Glíwra, forspillendra þéna, 4165. III. a player on an instrument, minstrel. Icel. glýjari a jester.] gliwere

Related words: cimbal-glíwere. [

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