单词 | good-father |
释义 | good-fathern. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A father-in-law; (also) a stepfather. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > [noun] > father-in-law eldfatherc1200 father-in-lawa1382 father-law1445 good-father1488 law-father1582 law's father1593 stepfathera1640 dad-in-law1694 papa-in-law1821 pa-in-law1840 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 925 His gud-fadyr he knew rycht wondyr weyll. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 1362 He becoyme þat kyngis man, As did his gudfadyr befor þan. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) iv. 347 Ti. Quincius..create Aulus Posthumius, his gude fader, dictator. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 206 Sche commandet her gudfather [L. socerum]..to obteine the cheif roume efter her in Britannie. 1627 in J. H. Macadam Baxter Bks. St. Andrews (1903) 86 Sayand oppinlie That he cause[d]..punishe him and Alexander Thomsoun, his gude father. 1695 Corshill Baron-Court Bk. in Archæol. & Hist. Coll. Ayr & Wigton (1884) IV. 189 The persuer upon oath deponed that he receaved noe money..from..his goodfather. 1786 R. Burns Poems 119 Thou was my Guidfather's Meere. 1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 459/2 After my guidfather had won away..into Abraham's bosom. 1872 J. G. Michie Deeside Tales iv. 133 He would make no exception o' his intended gued-father [sic]. 1947 Scots Mag. Dec. 218 I canna tak' this tae Mackay an' tell him my ain guid-feyther poachit it! 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 150/2 Good-father, father-in-law. 2000 J. Robertson Fanatic 71 I was speirin ma guidfaither aboot it earlier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1488 |
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