单词 | goatherd |
释义 | goatherdn. A person who keeps or tends goats.In quots. 1229, 1332 as a surname. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of goats > [noun] > goat-herd goatherdeOE goatress1607 goatherdess1620 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 130 Caprarius, gathiorde. lOE Laws: Rectitudines (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 451 Gathyrde gebyreð his heorde meolc ofer Martinus mæssedæig.., gif he his heorde wel begymeð. 1229 Close Rolls Henry III (1902) I. 190 Rex remisit Galfrido Gothirde..iram. 1332 in W. Hudson Three Earliest Subsidies Sussex (1910) 268 (MED) Johe le Gotherde. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 206 Goot herde, capercus. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 814/13 Hic capriarius, a gateheyrd. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 1 Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde, That sittes on yonder bancke. 1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. viii. 408 Theocritus merrily sets out the Venereousness of the Goatheard he describes. 1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote v. xx. 381 No sooner did the Goat-herds find, Antonio by his Hum inclin'd To sing a Song. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 298 To whom the goat-herd answer thus return'd. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 188 Yet he was only a young goatherd about 10 years of age. 1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iii. xxv. 365 In the quarters I found a goodly company of hearty, healthy, contented slaves, sty-wards, goatherds. 1959 O. Hammerstein II. Lonely Goatherd in R. Rodgers & O. Hammerstein II. Sound of Music (sheet music) 1 High on a hill was a lonely goatherd. 2001 High Country News 8 Oct. 2/4 He..worked as a cowboy and goatherd. Compounds Appositive, esp. in goatherd god. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. sig. N7v You Gote-heard Gods, that loue the grassie mountaines. 1680 T. Rymer tr. Ovid in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Epist. 175 The Beggar Irus, and that Goat-heard Clown, Melanchius range and rummage up and down. 1717 S. Garth tr. Ovid in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. 496 The Goatherd God frequents the silent Place. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vii. 228 His little blue-eyed twelve-years-old simplicity of a goat-herd sister. 1922 Continent 14 Sept. 1161/1 Pan, the old Greek goatherd god who typifies the spirit of paganism, is not dead. 1984 Classical Antiq. 3 16 Tityrus is to sing of two more singers, the divine neatherd poet Daphnis and the divine goat-herd poet Comatas. 2004 MLN 119 935 Since early in antiquity, Penelope's most notorious progeny, the goat and goatherd god Pan, was made her offspring by dint of fanciful wordplay. Derivatives ˈgoatherdess n. a female goatherd. [Compare earlier goatress n. and herdess n.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of goats > [noun] > goat-herd goatherdeOE goatress1607 goatherdess1620 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. ii. vi. f. 47v Shee would be stiled no otherwise, but the Goatherdesse [It. Cavriuola]. 1773 A. Grant Let. 3 May in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 53 I will not be a shepherdess, but a goatherdess. 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 2 He is flirting with a red-headed Highland goatherdess. 1903 Living Age 24 Jan. 206/1 An ancient goatherdess comes down the lane, twirling the distaff set with coarse grey hemp as she follows her flock. 2007 G. Greer Shakespeare's Wife iv. 60 In As You Like It Touchstone is a city wit who makes a specialty of wooing silly country girls like Audrey, the goatherdess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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