| 释义 |
wandought, n. and a. Sc.|ˈwandoxt|
Also wandocht, -dout, -dough.
[f. wan- + dought n. and a. Cf. undought n., undoughty a.]
A. n. A feeble or puny person.
a1728W. Starrat Epistle 53 in Ramsay's Poems (1728) II. 109 And when thou bids the paughty Czar stand yon, The Wandought seems beneath thee on his Throne. 1768Ross Helenore i. 9 Lindy is..Nae bursen bailch, nae wandought [1796, 1812, wandough] or misgrown, But plump an' swack an' like an apple round. 1850J. Struthers Poet. Wks. I. My Life 10 Mrs. Baillie..out of pure compassion for the wandought, had him frequently brought in to her.
B. adj. Feeble, ineffective, worthless.
1788Picken Poems 160 My wandocht, rustic Muse, Gane hafflens daiz't an' doitet, Begins to glunch. 1819A. Balfour Campbell I. xviii. 334 That wandought ne'er-do-weel o' a dominie. 1836M. Mackintosh Cottager's Dau. 62 She was nane o your wandought menseless folk. |