Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Blade

A knowing blade, a sharp fellow; a regular blade, a buck or fop. (Anglo-Saxon, blad or blæd, a branch or sprig.)

Blæd
= “branch,” whence “fruit, prosperity, glory,” etc. The compound, Blæd-daeg =a prosperous day; blæd-gifa, a glory-giver, i.e. a king, a “regular blade.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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