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单词 come-o-will
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come-o'-willn.

Brit. /ˈkʌməwɪl/, U.S. /ˈkəməˌwɪl/, Scottish English /ˈkʌməwᵻl/
Forms: see come v. and of prep. and will n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: come v., of prep., will n.1
Etymology: < come v. + of prep. + will n.1
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).
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