avetrol

avetrol

Middle English

Etymology

Perhaps from Old French avoistre.[1]

Noun

avetrol (plural avetrols)

1. bastard; illegitimate child[1][2]
   • 1810, Henry William Weber, Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries, page 114; quoting the Middle English text Kyng Alisaunder (c.1300[2]), lines 2,690–2,696

     […] “ Alisaunder !” thrye,
     

     “ Whar artow, horesone ! whar ?
     

     “ An hore to Amon the bar :
     

     “ Thou avetrol, thou foule wreche,
     

     “ Here thou hast thyn eyndyng feched !
     

     “ Com, and geve us on justyng,
     

     “ And thow schalt have hard metyng.”

References

1. 1834: William Toone, A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary, page 67
2. “†aveˈtrol” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]