| 释义 |
hodden Sc.|ˈhɒd(ə)n|
Also 8 hoddan, 8–9 hoddin, 9 huddin.
[Origin unknown.]
1. Woollen cloth of a coarse quality such as used to be made by country weavers on their hand-looms.
1792Sinclair in Statist. Acc. Scotl., Forfar IV. 242 Of the wool..is manufactured almost every kind of cloth worn in the parish; hodden, which is most used for herds cloaks, and is sold at 1s. 8d. the yard; plaiding [etc.]. a1800Bonnie Lizzie Lindsay xxx. in Child Ballads viii. ccxxvi. (1892) 262/2 And make us a bed o green rashes, And covert wi huddins sae grey. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iii. iv, Behold how their Peasants, in mere russet and hodden..dash at us like a dark whirlwind.
b. attrib. or adj.
c. Comb., as hodden-clad adj.
1812W. Tennant Anster F. ii. xxi, Tenant and laird, and hedger hodden-clad. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. i. vi, The hodden or russet individuals are Uncustomary.
2. hodden grey. Grey hodden, made without dyeing, ‘by mingling one black fleece with a dozen white ones’ (Gloss. to Burns, Paterson, 1877). Applied to the ‘cloth worn by the peasantry, which has the natural colour of the wool’ (Jam.). Hence often taken as the typical garb of homely rusticity.
A poetic inversion of grey hodden, used for rime's sake by Ramsay in a well-known passage, whence also in Burns, which has thence become a stock phrase, the two words being often hyphened, as if ‘hodden’ were a qualification of ‘grey’, or ‘hodden-grey’ were a colour.
1724Ramsay Gent. Sheph. v. ii, But Meg, poor Meg! maun with the shepherds stay, And tak what God will send in hodden grey. 1795Burns A man's a man 10 (Scots Mag. 1797, 611) What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddan grey and a' that [ed. Curry 1800 though..hoddin]. 1816Scott Old Mort. viii, An old woman..supported by a stout, stupid-looking fellow, in hodden-grey. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 175 His coat is hame-spun hodden-gray. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg. i. Court-yard, He went..Clothed in a cloak of hodden grey.
attrib.1820Scott Abbot xvii, From the hodden-grey coat to the cloak of scarlet and gold. 1843James Forest Days I. ii, Plain hodden-grey cloth, of a coarse fabric.
b. fig.
1866C. Rossetti Prince's Progr. etc. xvii, And heaven put off its hodden grey For mother-o'-pearl. a1882Whittier Garris. Cape Ann iv, Golden-threaded fancies weaving in a web of hodden gray. |