Chaucer

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Chaucer

/ˈt͡ʃɔːsə/ UK
/ˈt͡ʃɔsɚ/ US
/ˈt͡ʃɑsɚ/ US, cot caught merger, dialectal
/ˈt͡ʃɒsɚ/ Canada
/ˈt͡ʃoːsə/ Australia, British, New Zealand
/ˈt͡ʃɔsəɾ/ Scotland

Rhymes with -ɔːsə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English Chaucer, from Old French chaucier (“hose-maker, hosier”), from chauces (“clothing for the legs, breeches, pantaloons, hose”). Compare the modern loanword chausse.

proper noun

A rare medieval English surname from Old French.
Geoffrey Chaucer, a 14th-century English poet and author, best remembered for The Canterbury Tales; (by extension) his works. After all, the English hostel owes much of its charms to Chaucer; our associations are of his haunting pictures—his delicate Lady Prioress, his comely young squire, with their pleasant interchange of tale and legend, rise upon the mind's eye in all the fascination of his vivid delineations.

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name 14th-century English poet

日本語	チョーサー Chōsā
中文	喬叟 /乔叟 Qiáosǒu
Русский	Чо́сер Čóser

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@misc{chaucer_2026,
  title = {Chaucer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chaucer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}