Meanings
present singular third person forweans · participle present forweaning · participle past forweaned · past forweaned
- obsoletetransitiveTo accustom to bad habits; spoil by indulgence; pamper.
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*frawanjaną“to spoil”
- Old English*forwenian“to spoil”
- Middle Englishforwenien
- Englishforwean
From Middle English forwenien, forwanien, from Old English *forwenian (“to spoil”), from Proto-Germanic *frawanjaną (“to spoil”), equivalent to for- + wean. Compare Middle Low German vorwenen (“to forwean”), German verwöhnen (“to spoil, pamper, indulge”), Danish forvænne (“to indulge”).
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