Chaucer

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Chaucer
    n 1: English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales
         (1340-1400) [syn: {Chaucer}, {Geoffrey Chaucer}]

from Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date

CHAUCER

 (first name unknown), an early experimenter in the
English language. Notorious as a bad speller.  His best-known
work is used as a student puzzle in leading universities and
colleges.  Ambition:  A typewriter and a dictionary.