different between caudle vs maudle
caudle
English
Etymology
From Old Northern French caudel, from Medieval Latin caldellum, diminutive of Latin caldum, caldus (“warm”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??d?l/
- Rhymes: -??d?l
- Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudal
Noun
caudle (plural caudles)
- A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:
- A venerable lady, known as Great-Aunt Grantley, who had money to bequeath to the Heir, and whom Adrian called The Eighteenth Century, occupied with Hippias the back ground of the house, and shared her caudles with him.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:
Synonyms
- posset
Verb
caudle (third-person singular simple present caudles, present participle caudling, simple past and past participle caudled)
- (transitive) To make into caudle.
- (transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
Anagrams
- Claude, DeLuca, Deluca, cedula
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maudle
English
Etymology
A back-formation from maudlin, taken as the present participle.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m??d?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?d?l/, /?m?d?l/
Verb
maudle (third-person singular simple present maudles, present participle maudling, simple past and past participle maudled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
- (obsolete, transitive) To render maudlin.
- (intransitive) To act in an excessively sentimental way.
References
Anagrams
- almude, alumed, mauled
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