English
gurgeons
Gurgeons may come from Middle French grugeon ‘sugar lump’.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600grugeon‘sugar lump’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1587gurgeons
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600grugeon‘sugar lump’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1587gurgeons
Earliest quotation: 1587, Raphaell Holinshed, Of the food and diet of the Engliſh: “The raueled cheat therfore is generallie ſo made that…”
The story
Probably borrowed from Middle French grugeon (‘sugar lump’), from grugier (‘to laugh’).
Every English word from Middle French grugeon
Today it means
noun A coarse bran flour.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French grugeon / gurgeons