单词 | come-o-will |
释义 | come-o'-willn. Scottish. Now rare. A newcomer or recent arrival; spec. an illegitimate child. Also: an animal that attaches itself to a person or place of its own accord. Sc. National Dict. (at Come) records this word (in the specific sense ‘illegitimate child’) as still in use in Aberdeenshire in 1937. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > new inhabitant new-comeOE new-cominga1387 foreigner1422 stranger1447 newcomerc1450 new face?a1513 new comeling1587 come-o'-will1815 settler1815 newie1856 sinkeh1878 new kid1894 ring-neck1898 blow-in1908 malihini1914 mystery1937 new jack1988 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > illegitimate child avetrolc1300 bastardc1330 misbegetc1330 whoresonc1330 horcop14.. get?a1513 misbegotten1546 misbegot1558 mamzer1562 base1571 bantling1593 by-blow1595 by-chopa1637 by-scape1646 by-slipa1670 illegitimate1673 stall-whimper1676 love brata1700 slink1702 child, son of shame1723 babe of love1728 adulterine1730 come-by-chance?1750 byspel1781 love-child1805 come-o'-will1815 chance-child1838 chance-bairn1863 side-slip1872 fly-blow1875 catch colt1901 illegit1913 outside child1930 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iii. 34 Little curlie Godfrey—that's the eldest, the come o' will, as I may say. 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 314/2 The Tweedies are very auld..but the maist part o' the rest are upstarts and come-o'-wills. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. ix. 286 A tame raven come-of-will. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 95 She's a come-o'-wull—born on the wrang side o' the blanket, puir bit lassie! 1983 W. L. Lorimer & R. L. C. Lorimer New Test. in Scots John viii. 176 ‘We ar nae come-o-wills’, they said: ‘we hae ae Faither—God.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1815 |
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