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单词 coff
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coffv.

Brit. /kɒf/, U.S. /kɔf/, /kɑf/, Scottish English /kɔf/
Forms: Past tense and participle coft; also 1800s caft.
Etymology: originally found only in past participle and past tense coft , probably < Middle Dutch coft, cofte (still dialect beside later kocht ), past participle of côpen to buy and sell, deal, trade (according to the general Germanic phonetic law which excluded pt , kt , compare Old English sóhte for *sócte .) Hence, at a later date, was formed a present coff : the original present was cope v.3
Scottish. archaic.
a. transitive. To buy, purchase.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)]
cheapc950
buyc1000
takea1382
purchasec1390
costa1400
coffc1425
redeem?1520
cope1570
fetch1605
shop1944
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. x. 54 He þat all Man-kynd coft fra care.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 583 To thame that banquet had bene ouir deir coft.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 63 A hundir egs..war cofte for a frenche sous.
1774 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' xxviii A the lasses loup..'Cause lads for them coff broach sae bright.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 176 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 562 That sark she coft for her wee Nannie.
1807 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 124 His master caft him frae some fallows.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 280 ‘I cam to coff twine for the draigon’.
b. To acquire, get (otherwise than by buying). Obsolete. ‘Used improperly’ (Jamieson).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)]
wieldeOE
haveeOE
ofgoOE
oweOE
addlec1175
winc1175
avela1200
to come by ——a1225
covera1250
oughtc1275
reachc1275
hentc1300
purchasec1300
to come to ——c1330
getc1330
pickc1330
chevise1340
fang1340
umbracec1350
chacche1362
perceivea1382
accroacha1393
achievea1393
to come at ——a1393
areach1393
recovera1398
encroach?a1400
chevec1400
enquilec1400
obtainc1422
recurec1425
to take upc1425
acquirea1450
encheve1470
sortise1474
conques?a1500
tain1501
report1508
conquest1513
possess1526
compare1532
cough1550
coff1559
fall1568
reap1581
acquist1592
accrue1594
appurchasec1600
recoil1632
to get at ——1666
to come into ——1672
rise1754
net1765
to fall in for1788
to scare up1846
access1953
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence xlix Richard should beside the crowne have coft.
a1586 Sir R. Maitland in Edinb. Mag. & Rev. (1810) Sept. 327 (Jam.) Mr. David Seton..mareit all his eldest brother dochters upon landit men..and coft ladies of heretage to his brother sones.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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