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To prick is used in the sense that Macaulay loved, and that Croker blamed:

As might be expected, there are many Norse words in the Havelok. I give those which England has kept, together with one or two to be found in Lowland Scotch.

Besides these Scandinavian words, we find in the Have&shy;lok other words now for the first time employed. Such are lad (puer), from the Welsh llawd; stroute, our strut (contendere), a High German word; boy (puer), akin to the Suabian buah; to butt, akin to the Dutch botten; but