Englyn

Word ENGLYN
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Englyn- a person who clearly understands the the modern world of the future. Also known as a god-like being Urban Dictionary

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The word "englyn" in example sentences

If the englyn is the British equivalent of the haiku, then the great Welsh poet ❋ Unknown (2009)

But disregarding for now the possibly that Hector might not know an englyn from an awdl, there seems to be a grain of truth in that comment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The tablet bore the following inscription, and below it a rude englyn on death not worth transcribing: - ❋ Unknown (2004)

“The ale I shall find bad,” said I; Chester ale had a villainous character in the time of old Sion Tudor, who made a first-rate englyn upon it, and it has scarcely improved since; “but I shall have a treat in the cheese, Cheshire cheese has always been reckoned excellent, and now that I am in the capital of the cheese country, of course I shall have some of the very prime.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

And as surely as the couplet about the bridge argues great foresight in the man that wrote it, so surely does the englyn prove that its author must have been possessed of the faculty of second sight, as nobody without it could, in the middle of the seventeenth century, when the powers of steam were unknown, have written anything in which travelling by steam is so distinctly alluded to. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The above englyn was printed in the Greal, 1792, p. 316; the language shows it to be a production of about the middle of the seventeenth century. ❋ Unknown (2004)

What a triumph for Wales; what a triumph for bardism, if Lleiaf had ever written an englyn, or couplet, in which not a bridge for common traffic, but a railroad bridge over the Menai was hinted at, and steam travelling distinctly foretold! ❋ Unknown (2004)

Welsh bard, who flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century, wrote an englyn upon it, of which the following is a translation: - ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Has Llangollen ale,” said I, after tasting the second glass, “ever been sung in Welsh? is there no englyn upon it?” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Amongst these compositions was a Welsh englyn on the ❋ Unknown (2004)

He made an englyn for me to put in a book in which I was inserting all the verses I could collect: ❋ Unknown (2004)

He said that he had himself won the prize for the best englyn on a particular subject at an eisteddfod at which Sir Watkin Williams Wynn presided, and at which Heber, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta, was present, who appeared to understand Welsh well, and who took much interest in the proceedings of the meeting. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Now, as sure as the couplet by Robert Lleiaf foretells that a bridge would eventually be built over the strait, by which people would pass, and traffic be carried on, so surely does the above englyn foreshadow the speed by which people would travel by steam, a speed by which distance is already all but annihilated. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The metrical system of the canine original, which recalls the intricate alliterative and isosyllabic rules of the Welsh englyn, is infinitely more complicated but we believe our readers will agree that the spirit has been well caught. ❋ Unknown (2003)

_Bardd Nantglyn_, Robert Davies, Nantglyn, has an englyn to the woodpecker: -- ❋ Elias Owen (N/A)

Sion Tudor wrote an englyn on the Skerries whirlpool in the Menai; but it was Little Bob who wrote the stanza in which the future bridge over the Menai is hinted at. ' ❋ Edward Thomas (1897)

Jones found an _englyn_ devoted to _an_ exploit of a dog named ❋ Joseph Jacobs (1885)

[That girl] is very Englyn. ❋ CoolRanchDoritos (2023)

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