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Voider vs Voidee - What's the difference?

voider | voidee |

As nouns the difference between voider and voidee

is that voider is one who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls while voidee is a cup of wine drunk with spices or other small accompaniments, taken before retiring to bed or before the departure of guests; also, a larger snack or small meal taken in similar circumstances.

voider

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.
  • A tray or basket formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
  • * Decker
    • Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider .
  • * History of Richard Hainam
    • The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider , wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head.
  • (rare) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.
    • (Decker)

    Anagrams

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    voidee

    English

    Alternative forms

    * voide

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cup of wine drunk with spices or other small accompaniments, taken before retiring to bed or before the departure of guests; also, a larger snack or small meal taken in similar circumstances.
  • * c. 1385 , Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde , Book III:
    • Ther nys no more, but here-after soone, / The voide dronke, and trauers drawe anon, / Gan euery wight that hadde nought to done / More in the place out of the chaumbre gon [...].
  • * 1400 , JN. Shirley, Dethe of James Stewarde, Kyng of Scotys, page 13, ed. 1818:
    • Within an owre the Kyng askid the voidee , and drank, the travers yn the chambure edraw, and every man depairtid and went to rist.
  • * notes to '', in ''The Posthumous Works of Mrs. Radcliffe , Volume III, Henry Colburn (publisher, 1826), page 83:
    • Before the voidee', came in five score couple, Earles, Barons, and Knights, over and besides Squiers, having collers and chains of gould, every each of them throughout, bearing the one of them a spice-plate, the other a cuppe, beside yeomen of the guard that followed them with potts of wine to fill the cuppes. The spice-plates were furnished in the most goodly manner with spices, after the manner of a ' voidee ; and the cuppes were replenished with wine, and universally throughout the said hall distributed.

    References

    * http://www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/v.htm * Shipley, Joseph T (1955). Dictionary of Early English. New York, Philosophical Library. Page 711.