单词 | duddy |
释义 | † duddyadj. Scottish. Obsolete. Esp. of a child: ragged; shabby. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > shabbily dressed scoury?a1513 olda1616 shabby1669 dowdy1676 duddy1718 seedy1725 schleppy1966 schlubby1968 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing ragged or tattered clothing tattered1340 fitteredc1380 renta1382 raggedc1390 fortattereda1500 seam-rent1548 shake-ragged1550 tottered1570 beragged1611 betattered1618 shagged1622 tagged1631 duddy1718 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 29 Your Tippanizing, scant o' Grace, Quoth she, gars me gang duddy. 1786 R. Burns Poems 493 I wad na been surprised to spy You on an auld wife's flannen toy; Or aiblins some bit duddie boy. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 128 There isna a wheen duddie bairns to be crying after ane. 1845 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 306 That two-year-old duddy child. 1902 Country Life 5 Apr. 427 Not so long ago children such as we show would have been duddy and barefoot. Derivatives duddiness n. rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Duddiness, Raggedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1718 |
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