单词 | gormaw |
释义 | gormawn. Scottish and northern dialect. a. The cormorant. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > member of (cormorant) cormorantc1320 plungeon1480 gormaw?a1513 scart1513 sea-coot1575 sea-crow1579 scrath16.. sea-raven1611 sea-drake1632 storta1661 scarf1668 diver1766 Isle of Wight parson1806 a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 The golk, the gormaw and the gled Beft him with buffettis quhill he bled. 1722 A. Ramsay Eagle & Robin 15 Greidy Gleds and slie Gormahs. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Gorma, a cormorant. North. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Gormer, the cormorant. b. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1808–80 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Gormaw,..a glutton, Lanarks. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Gormow, a clownish fellow; sometimes applied to a great eater. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.?a1513 |
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