单词 | amper |
释义 | ampern. In later use English regional (southern and East Anglian) and Canadian regional (Newfoundland). Now rare. A swelling on the skin, esp. a boil, pustule, or pimple; a rash. Also: †a flaw in woven cloth (obsolete).In quot. eOE apparently: a swollen (varicose) vein.In quot. a1225 figurative, perhaps with the sense ‘affliction’. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance ampereOE kernelc1000 wenc1000 knot?c1225 swella1250 bulchc1300 bunchc1325 bolninga1340 botcha1387 bouge1398 nodusa1400 oedemaa1400 wax-kernel14.. knobc1405 nodule?a1425 more?c1425 bunnyc1440 papa1450 knurc1460 waxing kernel?c1460 lump?a1500 waxen-kernel1500 bump1533 puff1538 tumour?1541 swelling1542 elevation1543 enlarging1562 knub1563 pimple1582 ganglion1583 button1584 phyma1585 emphysema?1587 flesh-pimple1587 oedem?a1591 burgeon1597 wartle1598 hurtle1599 pough1601 wart1603 extumescence1611 hulch1611 peppernel1613 affusion1615 extumescency1684 jog1715 knibloch1780 tumefaction1802 hunch1803 income1808 intumescence1822 gibber1853 tumescence1859 whetstone1886 tumidity1897 Osler's node1920 eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 56 Uarix, amprae [eOE Erfurt Gloss. omprae]. a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 237 Þri ampres were an mancyn ær his to-cyme. Ure acenneng was ful, un [read ur] lif unwreast, ur deað grislic. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Amper vel Ampor, vox Rusticis agri Essexciensis usitatissima, quæ tumorem vel phlegmonen designat. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 57 An Amper: a fault or flaw in linnen or woollen cloath, Suss. Skinner makes it to be a word much used by the common or countrey-people in Essex to signifie a tumour, rising or pustule. 1847 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. (ed. 2) Gloss. 314 Amper, pustules, or the matter of them. ‘The chile is all out in an amper.’ 1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. Amper, a tumour, boil or blister. 1982 Dict. Newfoundland Eng. 7/1 Amper, a boil or gathering. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.eOE |
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