playfeer
English
Alternative forms
- playpheer, playphere
Etymology
From Middle English playfere, equivalent to play + feer.
Noun
playfeer (plural playfeers)
- (obsolete) A playfellow; a playmate.
- 1627, Michaell [i.e., Michael] Drayton, “[Elegies upon Sundry Occasions.]”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 250:
- [S]he was wont to call him her deare ſonne,
Her little play-feere, and her pretty Bun: […]