Lexicographical Neighbors of Aygre
| ayatollas aye aye-aye aye-ayes aye aye, sir aye man ayegreen ayegreens ayein ayelp | ayen ayenbite ayenbites ayenward ayes aygre (current term) ayield ayin ayins ayle | aymes ayo ayond ayont ayoo ayres ayrie ayries ayry |
Literary usage of Aygre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"aygre. Sour. This is merely the old orthography of eager, but is still in use in
... vigour It doth posset And curd, like aygre droppings into milke, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"aygre. Sour. This is merely the old orthography of eager, hut is still in ...
And with л sodaine vigour it doth pouet And curd, like aygre droppings Into ..."
3. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troy by Raoul Lefèvre (1894)
"... 69° 27; and bed sire, 643, aygre, adj. acid, sour, sharp, ‘57,,,; ... aygre and
sharpe, 40!,,; ..."
4. Early Tudor Poetry, 1485-1547 by John Milton Berdan (1920)
"(Out of Castilian drawen into Frenche by Antony Al-aygre and now out of the
Frenche toungue into our maternal language by Sir ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"... pronounced "aygre," and so seems to be identical with the French " aigre,"
sharp or biting. If further evidence were required to show that formerly the ..."
6. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Evangeline Maria O'Connor (1901)
"142. Dupp'd, opened; IV. v. 53. Dye, tinge (Folio i, " the eye "; Quartos 2-5, "
that die ") ; I. iii. 128. Eager, sharp, sour (Folios, "aygre"; ..."
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