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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