单词 | devil a haet |
释义 | > as lemmasdevil (also fiend) a (also the) haet a. devil (also fiend) a (also the) haet: not a whit, nothing at all. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > no part of something nothingOE never-a-deala1325 devil a haet1721 1721 in T. Craig-Brown Hist. Selkirk (1886) II. 101 Deil a haid care I for session or Presbytery. 1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. II. i. 13 Then the Foumart, he sits knitting his stocking, and quarrelling wi' the haill o' them. The feint a haed he minds but sheer ill nature. 1893 T. Stewart Among Miners 85 Feint the haet we'd wi' us, (Except the sack we meant tae pack Wi' game). a1930 N. Munro Roses, Roses, all the Way in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) ii. xxix. 446 Devil the haet would tickle Dimister; he had nae mair sense o' humour than a jyle door. 1987 B. Holton tr. S. Nai'an Men o the Mossflow Prol. in Sc. Corpus Texts & Speech He can munt the mists an sclim the clouds an there'll be fient the haet o him ti be fund. 1987 D. Williamson & L. Williamson Thorn in King's Foot 174 Devil a haet's gaunna come o hus. < as lemmas |
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