WORD OF THE DAY: SPAUGHT

SPAUGHT
also SPAUT, SPOWT

​NOUN
a young fellow approaching manhood; a youth, a lad, a stripling ...1598 obs. rare

ETYMOLOGY
of  unknown origin

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1598 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...Came you to day to our house? he denies it: but that other came beeing a spaught of sixeteene yeares old, whome Parmeno brought with him...."
From: Terence in English
 - Terence
Translated by Richard Bernard
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