Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fruit of the medlar-tree.
Etymologies
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Old English openærs, corresponding to open + arse (‘with allusion to the large cavity at the end of the fruit between the persistent calyx lobes’ – OED3).
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Examples
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For whom love might be no more than open-arse and poperin pear?
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For whom love might be no more than open-arse and poperin pear?
Archive 2007-02-25 2007
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For whom love might be no more than open-arse and poperin pear?
myth commented on the word open-arse
Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
O Romeo, that she were, O that she were
An open-arse and thou a pop'rin pear!
- Shakespeare
Another name for a medlar
February 16, 2009