yclept

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"Missus won't stand fer it, 'count of the kids, eh That's him, Ma, the one I was telling you about," Richard Sheeley, Jr.,--yclept "Skeeter"--tugged at his mother's sleeve, nodding his head at Donald, who was making love to the smallest and shyest of the daughters of the house She ain't as meek as she looks!"

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  • And she saw that the lady was very wonderfully beautiful, so that the beholder, looking upon her, felt a manner of fear--for that lady was Fay And that lady was the Lady of the Lake, spoken of aforetime in the Book of King Arthur, wherein it is told how she aided King Arthur to obtain that wonderful, famous sword yclept Excalibur, and how she aided Sir Pellias, the Gentle Knight, in the time of his extremity, and took him into the lake with her. —  The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
  • I returned his greeting with the same cordiality with which it was given: and I was forthwith saddled with Dartmore's arm, and dragged up Bond-street, into that borough of all noisy, riotous, unrefined, good fellows--yclept--'s Hotel Here we were soon plunged into a small, low apartment, which Dartmore informed me was his room. —  Pelham — Volume 04
  • "Missus won't stand fer it, 'count of the kids, eh That's him, Ma, the one I was telling you about," Richard Sheeley, Jr.,--yclept "Skeeter"--tugged at his mother's sleeve, nodding his head at Donald, who was making love to the smallest and shyest of the daughters of the house She ain't as meek as she looks!" —  A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill
  • For what so fair as winter's lilies, snow yclept, and what so brave as roses? —  The Cloister and the Hearth
  • _Directoire_ was a short-lived stopgap of not unmixed benefit to France, but our English Directory, yclept —  Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890
 

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  1. Middle English icleped, from Old English geclepod, past participle of gecleopian, to call : ge-, verb pref.; see kom in Indo-European roots + cleopian, to call.
 

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