| 释义 |
pit-mirk, a. Sc. and north. dial.
[f. pit n.1 + mirk a.]
As dark as a pit (or as the pit, hell: cf. pit n.1 4); intensely dark, pitch-dark.
1728Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 29 It fell late, And him benighted by the gate. To lye without, pit-mirk, did shore him, He couldna see his thumb before him. 1815Scott Guy M. xi, It's pit mirk, but there's no an ill turn on the road but twa. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped iii. 20 Neither moon nor star, sir, and pit-mirk. |