单词 | haverel |
释义 | havereln.adj. Chiefly Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern). A. n. 1. Scottish. A lazy or idle person; a sloven. Also: an ungainly person. rare.Recorded only in dictionaries and glossarial sources. Sc. National Dict. (at Haiverel) records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1956, but marks it as obsolescent.In quot. 1720 the glossary entry haveren may refer to hav'ren in quot. 1720 at havering adj. 1 (see note at that entry); however, there are no instances of haverel or havrel in Ramsay's poems. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] mesela1400 scabbardc1440 slotterbugc1440 drivel1498 sow1508 wallydraigle?a1513 sloven1530 filthy1553 ketterela1572 slabberer1611 slubberdegullion1612 Grobian1621 slabberdegullion1653 slobber-chops1670 slate1718 haverel1720 slobberer1732 slummock1760 fleabag1805 slush1825 slob1876 trashbag1887 crumb1918 garbage can1925 hog1932 crud1940 sordid1959 grot1970 1720 A. Ramsay Poems Gloss. 373/2 Haveren, or Havrel, sloven [1800 an insignificant chatterer, a half-witted fellow]. 1866 T. Edmondston Etymol. Gloss. Shetland & Orkney Dial. 52 Hyveral, a lounger; an idle, lazy person. c1930 Mrs. Nicol in Sc. National Dict. (1960) V. 6/2 Haiverel,..[mid-Dumfriesshire] an ungainly person. 2. A person given to foolish or inconsequential chatter or gossip; = haverer n. 1. Also: a stupid or ignorant person, a fool, a simpleton. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] > one who indulges in praterc1500 bumbard?a1513 babbler?1555 jabberer1678 bag of wind1816 haverel1825 haverer1825 windbag1827 clatfarta1930 natterer1959 1772 Town & Country Mag. July 384/2 Hoot ye daft hav'ril, cease your silly din. a1779 D. Graham Coll. Writings (1883) II. 34 A muckle mouth't haverel it is just like yoursel. 1789 D. Sillar Poems 92 Haud up your head, an' think nae shame, Tho' for't ilk hav'rel sud you blame. 1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. II. 71 Gle'yd Sawnie, the haivrel. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words at Haveril ‘Parfitly redicclous is that haveril there.’ a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) II. 103 Their only child ‘Bett’, a loud haveril of a lass. 1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland xiii. 273 Haverel, a rude coarse boor, a rough ignorant fellow. 1932 J. M. Barrie Farewell Miss Julie Logan 27 Neither good luck nor mischief, so far as I can discover, comes to the havrels of nowadays. 1996 D. Healy Bend for Home iii. 14 He'd taken with him the only loaf of bread in the house and a pot of gooseberry jam. The fecking haverel, shouted Eileen. B. adj. Given to or characterized by foolish or inconsequential chatter or gossip; garrulous, blathering. Also: foolish, stupid. Now archaic and rare.Some quots. may show appositive use of the noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [adjective] > engaging in idle talk babblinga1250 chatteringa1250 drivellinga1475 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 prating1528 bluddering1553 chatting1589 mouthy1589 dribbling1593 tinkling1625 stultiloquious1683 havering1720 vaniloquent1727 haverela1774 havering1808 stultiloquent1845 yattering1859 blethery1889 blithering1889 yackety-yacking1953 yacketing1958 nattering1959 yacking1959 chopsy1974 a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 183 Ye haveril Scot. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 154 Poor hav'rel Will fell aff the drift. 1832 Day (Glasgow) 6 Feb. 122/1 Ye have retired from busines just to write haverel books. 1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 176 A good-hearted, rattling, clever haveral sort of woman. 1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 138 At last John got fair heveril ower her, an ax't her, an she took him. 2004 P. McIntosh Harper's Quine (2007) vii. 158 ‘And why did none of you tell me?’ demanded her mistress. ‘What a flock of haiverel lassies!’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1720 |
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