Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Carson, Ricks.

Title
Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

Published
Explicator 50 (1992): 66-67.

Description
The use of "gnof" to describe John the carpenter is appropriate because it suggests "churl" and "numbskull" and further emphasizes the "ease with which John is hoodwinked."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.
Language and Word Studies.