egre

egre (plural egres)

1. Alternative spelling of eagre.

• Eger, Geer, Gere, eger, geer, gree

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɡre/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡre
• Hyphenation: è‧gre

egre

1. feminine plural of egro

• erge, rege

From Old French egre, aigre, from Late Latin ācrus, from Latin ācer.

• eger, egyr, egir, egur, egor, egree

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛːɡər/, /ˈɛːɡrə/

egre

1. acidic, sour-tasting
2. violent, ruthless
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Clerk's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1198–1200:

     And ſklendꝛe wyves fieble as in bataille / Beth egꝛe as is a tygꝛe yond in Ynde / Ay clappeth as a mille I yow conſaille

     And slender wives, powerless in battle: / Be as ruthless as a tiger over in India, / and always chatter like a mill, I advise you!

3. angry, raging
4. aggrieved, furious
5. potent, mighty, strong
6. (rare) eager, ready

• egerly
• egernesse
• egren
• egurdouce
• vynegre

• English: eager
• Scots: laager, laeger
• Yola: aagar

• “ēgre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 July 2018.

From Old French aigrier.

egre

1. alternative form of egren