单词 | cow-huby |
释义 | † cow-hubyn. Scottish. Obsolete. Apparently = ‘calf’, used in endearment or ridicule. (The meaning cow-herd suggested by Jamieson does not appear in the quots.) ΚΠ a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 108 Quod scho, ‘Gramercye, my sweit cowhubye.’ 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 86 Knychtis ar kouhubis, and commonis plukyt crawis. 1558 Bp. Dury in Knox Hist. Ref. in Wks. (1846) I. 262 Fra France we thought to have gottin a Rooby [Monsieur de Ruby]; And yit is he nothing but a cowhuby. a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 617 An clauering cohoobie that crackes of the pharie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.?a1513 |
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