| 释义 |
bygoing, vbl. n.|ˈbaɪˌgəʊɪŋ|
Also 9 Sc. byganging, by-gaun.
[f. by- 2 a.]
The action of passing by; esp. in phr. in the bygoing: in passing, incidentally, by the way.
1637Rutherford Lett. cxxii. (1862) I. 303 A smell in the by-going is sufficient. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxxv, Your beasts had been taking a rug of..moorland grass in the by-ganging. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xv. (1859) 358 Timotheus I may state in the bygoing was not a Dutchman. |