| 释义 |
▪ I. jo Sc.|dʒoː|
Also joe (anglicized joy).
[In sense 1, Sc. form of joy, F. joie. (In some dialects of 16th c. Sc., oy, oi ran together with ō: hence jone = join; rois = rose, etc.) In sense 2 app. the same word, and sometimes in 16th c. spelt joy.]
†1. Joy, pleasure. Obs.
c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxiv. 13 Hir court hes [pr. he] jo, quhair evir thay go. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 53 Now lat vs sing with myrth and Jo [rime principio]. 1570Satir. Poems Reform. xvii. 180 God may conuert our cair In plesure and in Jo [rimes wo, fo, no].
2. As a term of endearment: A sweetheart, darling, beloved one.
a1529Skelton Agst. Scottes 91 Kynge Jamy, Jemmy, Jocky my jo, Ye summond our kynge,—why dyd ye so? [1535Lyndesay Satyre 1302 Iennie, my Ioy [Pinkerton joe] quhair is thy dadie? 1563Foxe A. & M. (1583) 1266 [Treigton, Bp. of Dunkelden] ‘My ioy Deane Thomas, I loue you wel’. 1573Sempill in Satir. Poems Reform. xxxix. 255 Alace, my Joyis! ȝe had bot lytill skill. a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems iii. 73 Judge of ȝour self by Julius, my joyes, Quhais fenȝeid freinds wer worse then open foes. ]1686G. Stuart Joco-ser. Disc. 49 My Joe, quo' she, I need no' speer What wind it was that blew you here. 1725Ramsay Gent. Sheph. i. i, Dear Roger, when your Jo puts on her gloom, Do ye sae too and never fash your thumb. 1790Burns Song, ‘John Anderson’ i, John Anderson, my jo. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxviii, It's Miss Edith's first joe, your ain auld maister, Cuddie. 1830Galt Lawrie T. ix. ii. (1869) 408 It might have been one of the servant girls with her jo. 1893Stevenson Catriona iii. 28 Just twa o' my old joes, my hinny dear.
▪ II. jo
variant of joe, Portuguese coin. |