单词 | ciotóg |
释义 | ciotógn.adj. Irish English. A. n. The left hand. Also: a left-handed person.Occasionally: a nickname given to such a person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > [noun] > favouring one side > person ciotóg1832 left-footer1864 right-footer1864 southpaw1871 right-hander1885 sinistral1889 port-sider1899 molly-hander1911 molly-dook1922 dextral1927 lefty1927 cuddy wifter1929 molly-dooker1934 northpaw1960 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > left hand winstereOE left handc1275 bridle hand?1561 bow-hand1598 buckler-hand1676 rein hand1738 sinister1770 southpaw1813 ciotóg1832 shield-hand1891 1832 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 15 Dec. 195/1 When every body thought he was lost, up he came with the duck by the leg in his kithogue (left hand). 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 408 The children: Kithogue! Salute! The idiot: (Lifts a palsied left arm and gurgles). 1939 Limerick (Ireland) Leader 8 July 13 One of the Collins brothers [sc. a tennis player] is a natural citeog. 1953 Irish Independent 10 June 5 A potato, carrot or apple peeler that cuts both ways and may be used, by a right-handed person or a ‘citeog’. 1988 A. Taylor To School through Fields (1994) 72 I took it from him for a while, but then one day I stood back and gave him a swipe of the ciotog. 2019 Irish Independent (Nexis) June 26 20 Surveying teachers who have graduated since 1975, he found that none of them had been trained in how to teach ciotógs. B. adj. Left-handed.In quot. 1955 applied humorously to a left-footed dog. ΚΠ 1835 Dublin Univ. Mag. Nov. 550/2 He was kithogue, and struck sorest with his left. 1955 Connacht (County Galway, Ireland) Sentinel 1 Mar. 4 I should have explained that the poor fellow was kithogue. 1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 17 June (Sport section) 20 The new King Cobra 11 irons..will shortly be available to all ciotog golfers. 2013 @hurlingstats 2 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 30 July 2019) A ciotóg hurler and a hefty looking sliotar adorn the cover of the 1913 All Ireland #hurling final programme. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.adj.1832 |
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