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单词 daimen
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daimenadj.

Forms: Also 1800s demmin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. In Ayrshire pronounced as ˈdemmin. (Perhaps a participle: compare Whitby daum'd out, dealt out sparingly.)Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdaimen.
Scottish.
‘Rare, occasional’ (Jamieson).
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1786 R. Burns To Mouse iii, in Poems 139 A daimen-icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request.
1821 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Apr. 352 (Jam.) At a demmin time I see the Scotchman. [Still in use in Ayrshire, as in ‘a daimen ane here and there’.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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