y-clept

Variant of yclept

yclept definition

yclept or y-clept y-clept′ (ē klept′)

transitive verb

Archaic called; named; known as a giant yclept Barbarossa
also sp. ycleped ycleped′ or y-cleped y-cleped′ (-klept′)

Etymology: ME ycleped < OE geclypod < ge-, y- + pp. of clipian, to call, clepe (popularized by Edmund Spenser & John Milton)

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