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Middle English
Etymology
From under- + picchen (“to throw, fix”).
Verb
underpicchen (past tense and past participle underpight)
- to fill underneath; to prop up
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
Usage notes
Only attested in the past tense and past participle.
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