| 释义 |
† forˈcouth, a. Obs.
Forms: 1 forcúþ, 3 forcud.
[OE. forcúþ, an accentual variant of fracoð, fracod, corresp. to Goth. frakunþs despised; see for- prefix1 and couth.
Kluge suggests that the form with stressless prefix may have arisen from the compound ˈunforcúþ.]
Perverse, infamous, worthless, vile.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxvii. §3 Hi habbaþ þæs mennisces þone forcuþestan [v.r. forcuþeran] [dæl] ᵹehealden. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 268 Swa he oftor on ðære fandunge abryð, swa he forcuðra bið. a1175Cott. Hom. 219 Þa warð he and halle his iferen forcuðran þanne ænig oðer ȝesceafte. c1205Lay. 28240 Som forcouþ cniht. c1230Hali Meid. 33 Þea þat fondeð ham meast; ifindeð ham forcudest. |