† ˈpuchersum, a. Obs.
(?)
(The editor suggests ‘devilish’; but poker, demon, is not found till 250 years later. Pother, puther, which might have given puthersome, ‘troublesome, perplexing, difficult’, is also much later.)
| 13.. Cursor M. 2182 (Cott.) Iapheth had suns seuen, Aparti puchersum to neuen [Gött. sinful for to neuen], Gomer, madan, iena, magog, Tubal, tiras, and mosog. |