| 单词 | weffe |
| 释义 | ▪ I. † weffe1 Obs.
Forms: 3–4 wef, 4–5 weef(e, 4–6 weffe.
[Of obscure etymology; represented later by weft waft n.1 1.]
1. A (foul or unsavoury) scent or odour: = waft n.1 1 b. Cf. whiff n.1 3.
a1300Body & Soul (Laud MS.) in Map's Poems (Camden) 335 And nouȝ so lodly thouȝ list grenne, fro the comeþ a wikke wef. 13..Ibid. (Vernon MS.) 342 A wikked weef. 13..Metr. Hom. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Sprach. LVII. 288 Wondur him þouȝt Þat of þat bodi [= corpse] wef hedde he nouȝt. c1440Promp. Parv. 520/1 (MS. K.) Weffe, vapor.
2. Flavour, taste; ill-savour: = waft n.1 1 a. Cf. whiff n.1 3 b.
c1440Promp. Parv. 520/1 Weef [Winch. MS. Weefe], or summe what semynge to badnesse, inclinacio ad malum. 1530Palsgr. 287/2 Weffe tast, goust. Ibid. 475/1, I can nat awaye with this ale, it hath a weffe:..elle est de mauluays goust.
▪ II. † weffe2 Obs.—1
[? f. weve v.]
A blow or cut. (Cf. waff n. 3.)
13..Coer de L. 5291 He took to hys mace off bras,..And gaff hym a sory weffe, That hys helme al to-cleff.
▪ III. † weffe3
earlier form of weft waft n.1 6 (a small flag waved as a signal).
1562W. Bullein Bulwarke, Dial. Health & Sicknes 76 b, Then Ariadne rente from her, her womanly apparell, making a weffe thereof upon the ende of a pole. |
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