bædling
(bǽd- ?). Substitute :-- An effeminate person; mollis ( = qui alterius fornicationem sustinet) :-- Sé ðe mid bædlinge (cum molli) hǽme, oððe mid óðrum wǽpnedmen, fæste .x. winter. On óðre stówe hit cwyð . . . sodomisce .vii. geár fæston. Gif se bædling mid bædlinge (mollis cum molli) hǽme, Ll. Th. ii. 228, 13-17. Bædling cariar, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 6. Effeminati, molles oððe bædlingas, 29, 7. Cf. bæddel.æ
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