A Ghost Proverbial Expression from Chaucer's Reeve's Tale : 'Digne as Water in Dich'

Author / Editor
Pearcy, Roy J.

Title
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.