micelæte
Old English
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Etymology
By surface analysis, miċel- (“great”) + ǣta (“eater”) + -e (adjectival suffix)
Adjective
micelæte
- gluttonous, eating a lot
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “micel-ǽte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.