单词 | hasky |
释义 | haskyadj. Chiefly Scottish, English regional (northern and north midlands), and Irish English (northern). Dry; harsh, rough; = hask adj. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [adjective] > stony stonyc975 calculosec1420 carbunculine?1440 stanneryc1440 hasky1649 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xxii. 129 Dry, haskey, sandy, hungry Land. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvii. 186 St. Foyn is a French Grass much sowed there, upon their barren, dry, hasky Lands. 1779 J. Barker Treat. Putrid Constit. 61 The skin frequently dry and hasky; but not always. 1796 J. Hunter Compl. Dict. Farriery & Horsemanship at Cough If the cough is occasioned by a schirrous or unsound liver, it will be short, and hasky. 1814 W. Nicholson Tales in Verse 146 For her he shook the hasky strae, An' kav'd the corn fu' neatly. 1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 1 iv. 403 Clover seldom succeeds on sandy loam, or thin hasky land. 1956 Jrnl. County Louth Archaeol. Soc. 13 314 Máirtini and mittens were worn by the women especially in spring in dry ‘hasky’ weather to save the backs of the legs from ‘aireach’ or ‘hecks’ which was a soreness and splitting of the skin. 2007 T. Mac Intyre in Irish Pages 4 79 Slaves busy, hasky weather. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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