| 释义 |
pedee, pedie Obs. exc. dial.|ˈpiːdiː|
Also 7 paddee, pedee, pedy, 7–9 peedee |ˌpiːˈdiː|, 9 P.D.
[Derivation uncertain: several early writers associate the word with L. pēs, pedem foot, pede on foot.]
A serving-lad, footboy, groom; in 19th c., on the River Tyne, the boy on board a keel.
1642Ld. Essex in Antiq. Rep. (1807) I. 391 No Trooper..shall suffer his Paddee to feed his Horse in the Corne, or to steale men's hay. 1646Sc. Acts Chas. I, VI. 233/2 No allowance..is to bee given..for the tenth man, or the Pediese or Boys and Horse. 1658J. Jones tr. Ovid's Ibis 160 note, Who can blame Dolon, a poor Pedee, for adventuring his life for Gold? 1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Pedee (from pes), a (commanders) Foot-boy. 1676W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. x. (1848) 160 About 30,000 men beside boys, pedies, lackies, &c. 1706Phillips, Pedee, an ordinary Foot-boy, a Drudge; as ‘What must I be your Pedee upon all Occasions?’ a1800in Gilchrist Songs (1824) 11 So P.D. and his marrow were e'en pawk'd ashore. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Pee-dee, a young lad in a keel, who has charge of the rudder. 1863in Tyneside Songs 6 Wor blagaired lad, the young Pee Dee. 1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., The crew of a keel consisted of the skipper, two bullies, and the pee-dee, who was generally a boy from twelve to fourteen years old.
b. Comb., as pedee-solicitor.
1675A. Huyberts Corner-Stone 3 A junior Doctor of the gang they employed to be their Pedee-Solicitor. |