| 释义 |
rowty, a. Now north. dial.|ˈraʊtɪ|
Forms: 6 rowtie, 7– rowty, 9 routy.
[App. related to rowet, but found earlier: cf. rowety a.]
Of grass, etc.: Coarse, rough, rank.
1587Harrison Descr. Brit. i. xviii, The haie of our low medowes is not onelie full of sandie cinder,..but also more rowtie, foggie, and full of flags. Ibid. iii. i, The hinderance by rot is rather to be ascribed to..their licking in of mildewes, gossamire, rowtie fogs, and ranke grasse. 1691Ray N.C. Words, Rowty, over-rank and strong: spoken of Corn or Grass. 1788W. H. Marshall Prov. Yorksh., Rowty, rank, overgrown, as beans or other corn. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., Thick rowty grass. |