geigh lourde

1. One who has excelled so much at being geigh, that other geighs bow down and recognize their authority as the "Lourde of the Geighs".

Old English ancestor of gay lord.

"Why does Tom have to always be such a geigh lourde?"

"and then when they marry, they get wenches: they are generally geigh lourdes and cowards;" (William Shakespeare, King Henry IV part II, act IV scene V)

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