▪ I. † pautener, n.1 (a.) Obs.
Also 4 -ere, Sc. paytener, -tynere, 5 pawtener, pautonere.
[a. AF. pautener = OF. pautonier (so in Gower), earlier paltunier (12th c., Godef.), ‘a lewd, stubborne, or saucie knaue’ (Cotgr.); in med.L. paltōnārius, in It. paltoniere ‘a paltrie, cheating, loitring companion, also a carier or drouer’ (Florio); deriv. of It. paltone ‘varlet, knaue, rascall’ (Florio), Pr. paltom (Diez). Referred by Diez to a L. type *palito, -ōnem vagabond, vagrant, f. pālitārī (Plautus), iterative of pālārī to wander up and down. A possible source has also been sought in LG. palt bit, piece, e.g. of bread, whence ‘beggar’, Sc. ‘gie's-a-piece’.]
A vagabond, rascal.
In numerous places modern editors have misread and misprinted pantener. This is here corrected.
| 13.. Cursor M. 5143 (Cott.) Þou lighes now, eber pautener! Ibid. 16075 Vp þar stert tua pauteners. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 859 Þou ne askapest noȝt ous, pautener, bot her riȝt þou schalt dye. 1426 Audelay Poems 16 Apon his parté pautener ys apayd. c 1450 Merlin 268 A full fell pawtener is he that twies this day thus hath yow smyten to grounde. [1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. xii, The Norfolk barrator and paltener.] |
B. adj. [So in OF.] Rascally, wicked.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 320 A boye fulle pautenere he had a suerd that bote, He stirte vnto þe Cofrere, his handes first of smote. 1375 Barbour Bruce ii. 194 Thar wes nane off lyff sa fell, Sa pautener, na sa cruell. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 1111 Ȝet was he þe mast fellone man þat mycht be, & cruel and paytynere. |
▪ II. † pautener, n.2 Obs.
Also 4–5 pawtener, 5 -ere, -yner, pawtnere, pauteneere, 6 pawtenar, pautner.
[a. OF. pautonniere (1419 in Godef.), a purse, ‘a shepheard's scrip’ (Cotgr.).]
A small bag, a wallet, scrip, purse.
| c 1325 Poem Times Edw. II 86 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 327 He put in his pautener an honne and a komb. 1395 Will of Leyghton (Somerset Ho.), My pawtener w{supt} Rynge of siluer & gylde pawtener. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxii. (1869) 148 Cloutes and pauteneeres and bagges. 1463–4 Rolls of Parlt. V. 505/2 For weryng eny Purces, Pawteners, or Crounes of Cappes for Children. c 1483 Caxton Dialogues 41/5 Lyon the pursser hath purses and pauteners. 1530 Palsgr. 252/2 Pautner, malette. |