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English
Etymology
From Middle English bourdour, from Old French bordeor, bourdour; equivalent to bourd + -er.
Noun
bourder (plural bourders)
- (obsolete) A jester.
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Etymology
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Verb
bourder
- to get bogged down, stuck, be unable to move forward
Middle English
Noun
bourder
- Alternative form of bourdour
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), by
William Caxton], published
31 July 1485,
→OCLC; republished as H
Oskar Sommer, editor,
Le Morte Darthur , London:
David Nutt,
,
1889,
→OCLC:
cowardly and felonsly they slew sir Dynadan, whyche was a grete dammage, for he was a grete bourder and a passynge good knyght- (please add an English translation of this quotation)