单词 | clootie |
释义 | Clootien. Scottish and northern dialect. 1. A name for the Devil, as popularly represented with a cloven foot. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > cloven hoof cloven hoofc1175 cleft foot1574 hoof1638 Clootie1786 Cloots1786 1786 R. Burns Poems 55 O Thou, whatever title suit thee! Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 9 Aunt Meable has lost her best sark, And Cleutie is bleam'd varra mickle. 1842 R. H. Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 224 Run! run!—that's the ‘muckle-horned Clootie’ himself! 2. Diminutive of cloot n. a hoof. ΚΠ 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 485 With his hinder clooties jerked up. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clootieadj. Scottish and English regional (northern). Made of pieces or strips of cloth. Now rare. ΚΠ 1896 J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy iii. 48 Making progress with her new clouty hearthrug. 1900 W. MacGillivray Glengoyne I. viii These, with coarse lint spun on the ‘little wheelie’..were sent to the local weaver, who made them into ‘clouty claith’. 1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 604/1 [Northumberland] Clooty-hat, a bonnet for field work, made of cloth. 1924 Scots Mag. June 187 The clootie coverin' showed them up beautifully. 1928 J. Baxter A' Ae 'Oo' 18 Fine, inbye the chumley lug, Tae needle at the clooty rug. Compounds clootie dumpling n. Scottish a sweet suet pudding containing dried fruit, mixed spice, etc., which is traditionally cooked by wrapping in a cloth and boiling or steaming. ΚΠ 1929 F. M. McNeill Scots Kitchen 174 Clauti-scone, a coarse scone of oatmeal and yeast made in Kinross.] 1966 Scottish Field July 46 (heading) Friendship is a clootie dumpling. 1974 Times 25 Jan. 16/4 The text suggests that I should sample dishes with such impossible names as cullen skink.., whim-wham and cloutie dumpling. 2002 J. Bindloss & C. Lucas Scotland's Highlands & Islands 80/2 Clootie dumpling is a deliciously rich steamed pudding filled with currants and raisins. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1786adj.1896 |
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