kikelot

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Middle English

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

kikelot (plural kikelots)

  1. (obsolete) A chattering woman.
    • 1952, Sherman McAllister Kuhn, Middle English Dictionary, page 956:
      Me seið up on ancre þet uch an mest haueð an old quene to feden hire earen, þet maðeleð alle þe tale þe me telleð ilonde, An kikelot piot.
      I sit upon an anchor that each and most has an old queen to satisfy her ears, that speaks all the tale(s) that I tell in the land, and a kikelot.