ragery

ragery

Middle English

Noun

ragery

1. Wantonness.
   • Late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,”

     And after that he sang ful loude and cleere,

     And kiste his wyf, and made wantown cheere

     He was al coltissh, ful of ragerye,

     And ful of jargon as a flekked pye.