单词 | fauch |
释义 | fauchadj.n. Scottish. Now rare. Of a pale brownish or reddish-yellow colour; = fallow adj.1 1. In later use sometimes more generally: pale. Also as n. Cf. fauchie adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > brownish faucha1522 brownish1555 browny1582 brownish-coloured1685 earth colour1775 the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > reddish yellow > pale fallowOE favel1490 faucha1522 fallow-coloured1567 fulvid1598 fulve1657 fulvous1664 flavid1762 fox-coloured1796 fulvescent1817 a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. Prol. 37 The grond fadyt, and fawch wolx all the feildis. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. i. 34 A lenȝe watry garmond dyd hym vaill, Of cullour fawch [L. glauco]. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 108 Sum greyce, sum gowlys..Blanchit or brovne, fawch ȝallow mony ane. 1776 D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) II. Gloss. 251/1 Faugh, a colour between white and red. 1790 A. Shirrefs Poems Gloss. 15/1 Faugh, a colour between white and brown. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 202 Faugh-blue, bleached blue. 1985 D. Purves Weidae's Son & Streinger (SCOTS) Hir hair wes blek as a sternless nicht, an hir skin wes as fauch as the muinlicht. 2011 www.drunkenboat.com No. 13 (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 10 Apr.) The cluds set antrinwice, wan agin a fauch-blae lift. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fauchv. Scottish and English regional (northern). 1. transitive. = fallow v.2 (in various senses); esp. to plough or break up (ground). Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the sense ‘to plough or harrow fallow ground’ as still in use in Shetland, Caithness, and Aberdeen in 1949, and (with specific reference to the preparation of the ground for spring sowing) in Midlothian and Berwickshire in 1951. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivate or till [verb (transitive)] > lay fallow summerlay1467 fauch1579 summer fallow1625 rest1634 summerland1667 summer work1687 winter-fallowa1722 pin-fallow1808 dead-fallow1851 fallow1873 bare-fallow1961 1579 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 225 The said Patrik gadderit the haill plewis of the cuntrie, and fauchit the ley land of the said Gilbertis tak landis. a1600 MS Rec. Aberdeen in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1825) Suppl. (at cited word) Sayand at [= that] he wald nocht eir nor faucht his land sa air in the yeir. 1614 Burnett Family Papers in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Fauch The said Alexander Gordoune..sall ȝeirllie..sett, fauch, and eir the land of the gleib. 1699 Ld. Belhaven Countrey-mans Rudim. 8 I advise you..to Fauch or Fallow some part of these two Breaks designed for Pease. 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 421 Faugh, to plough, and let it lie fallow a summer or winter. 1799 A. Johnstone in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XXI. 139 A part of folding ground, enriched by the dung of sheep and of cattle..or fauched (a kind of bastard fallow) and manured by a little compost dung, bore three, four or five crops. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 80 I brawlie can faugh yere weel plowed lea. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 54 Fauf, to fallow. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield (at cited word) They say a man is faufing his land when he is cleaning it with no crop on it. a1899 J. E. Dent in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 301/1 [S. Durham] That field was faufed last year. 2. transitive. Scottish (north-eastern). To rub vigorously. Also with up. Now rare. ΚΠ 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 44 Fauch, to rub with vigour. 1929 Miss Chessar in Sc. National Dict. (1956) IV. (at cited word) [Aberdeenshire] Fyauch up the kitchie tables, mak' them as fite's the snaw. 1951 D. D. Murison in Sc. National Dict. (1956) IV. (at cited word) [Aberdeenshire] The soo was fyauchin itsel on the gate-post. Derivatives ˈfauching n. ΚΠ 1710 in Ld. Fountainhall Decisions (1761) II. 597 The method of labouring outfield there, was by often liming, dunging, faulding, and faughing, they took four or five crops, and let it rest as long. 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 44 Fauchan, a constant rubbing; commonly used when speaking of the skin. 1923 H. Beaton Benachie 172 I'll pit a wisp aneath her heid an' gie her a gweed fachin o' a rub. 1981 R. A. Dodgshon Land & Society in Early Scotl. vii. 231 Where large quantities of pasture existed, faughing was sometimes used. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1522v.1579 |
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