| 单词 | devil hae't |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil hae't devil hae't n. (formerly also the devil hae't) Scottish (now rare) not a whit; very little; nothing at all. Cf. devil a haet at haet n. 1a. [ < devil n. + Scots hae, optative subjunctive of have v. + it pron.; compare fiend haet n. at fiend n. Additions.] ΚΠ c1590 King James VI in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1842) 419 The King replyed: ‘The Divill haue it aills you, but that, ye would all be alyke, and ye cannot abyde any to be ouer you’. [MʽCrie Life Knox (1814) II. 299 prints ‘The d——l haid ails you’.] 1603 Philotus cvi. sig. D4 For that deuyse deuill haid it dowis. 1724 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden p. xxxiv There was a Gentleman standing next to me..who said, A Pack of Damn'd Witches and Warlocks, that have the second Sight, the Devil-ha't do I see. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxx, in Poems 20 Tho' deil-haet ails them, yet uneasy. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. xv. 324 De'il hae't do I expect. 1933 ‘J. Bridie’ Sleeping Clergyman 42 De'il ha'e't I care how she enjoyed her party. < as lemmas |
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