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单词 glunimie
释义

glunimien.

Forms: Also glune-amie, glunyieman.
Etymology: Probably a corruption of some Gaelic phrase often heard from Highlanders.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A Lowland name for a Highlander.
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1737 W. Meston Old Mother Grim's Tales viii. 45 Upon a Time.. Some Glunimies met at a Fair, As deft and tight, as ever wore A Durk, a Targe and a Claymore.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Glunyie-man, a rough unpolished boorish-looking man; a term generally applied to a Highlander.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 85 And he is but half a Highlander neither, and wants a thought of the dour spirit of a Glune-amie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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