Lexicographical Neighbors of Cropfull
Literary usage of Cropfull
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*cropfull. (i) Vexed, sorrowful [Spur.]. Sed quaere. (2) Satisfied [MCHB]. Crotch.
(i) The meeting of two arms of a tree ; or of an arm with the trunk ..."
2. The Comedies of Aristophanes by Aristophanes (1820)
"... sir,— ' This cake is excellent—pray sup this broth— This soup will not offend
you, tho' cropfull— You love an obolus; pray take these *three— Honor me, ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia: Founded on that of Forby : with by Walter Rye, Robert Forby (1895)
"*cropfull. (i) Vexed, sorrowful [Spur.]. Sed quaere. (2) Satisfied [MCHB].
Crotch, (i) The meeting of two arms of a tree ; or of an arm with the trunk ..."
4. Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People by Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1821)
"cropfull—is a term appropriate to poultry. It here means full to the throat with
the cream that had been set for him. " Tow'red cities please us then, ..."
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