A Ghost Proverbial Expression from Chaucer's Reeve's Tale : 'Digne as Water in Dich'
- Author / Editor
- Pearcy, Roy J.
A Ghost Proverbial Expression from Chaucer's Reeve's Tale : 'Digne as Water in Dich'
- Published
- Proverbium 18: 257-60, 2001.
- Description
- Dialectical and textual evidence suggests that the simile in RvT 1.3964 means "'she is as worthy as ditch-water is stinking' that is to say 'very worthy,' with no pejorative implication."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.