We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
ahoge (1155)
Cite this entry

The form hahuge is a cross reference to the following entry:

ahoge (1155)

Cite this entry
aheuge,  ahuege,  ahuge  (hahuge)  
  FEW:  grand 23,165a Gdf:  ahoge 1,177a GdfC: ∅ TL: ahoge 1,222 DEAF:  ahoge  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  huge a., adv.  MED:  huge a.  DMLBS: ∅

a.

huge, very large in size: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Les pieres sunt teles e tantes, Tant ahuges e tant pesantes  Brut WACE 8048
( 1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Un[e]s pels fist de barbes granz, Hahuges e bien trainanz  Trist thomas2 725
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  la hanste (=of the lance) fud grosse e ahuge cume le suble as teissurs  Liv Reis1 32
( c.1192; MS: c.1275 )  Feu u funt aheuge e grant  Pr Jean3 126.Y286
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Altre vengance d’Egipte prent Deus an eire: Foudre i  (ed. [i]l) enveie, grisil e grant tuneire. Le grisil ert si gros e si ahoge, Sur ki il chet ne poet estre viuge  Anc Test (B) 2046
♦very large, mighty, extreme: 
( c.1185 )  Si s’entredonent en ces targes Ahoge colps granz e larges  Proth ANTS 8094
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  La nuit fist Deu ahoge vengement Del rei d’Egypte e de tote sa gent  Anc Test (E) 2106

See also:

huge1 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
hahuge