单词 | hazzle |
释义 | hazzlev. In later use English regional (chiefly northern and eastern) and Scottish (chiefly Ayrshire). To dry on the surface; to dry incompletely. Also: to dry in the open air.The transitivity of some later glossarial examples is uncertain. a. transitive. To dry (something) on the surface only or incompletely; to dry (something) in the open air. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > superficially hazzle1642 haze1823 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 886 Who by that happy wind of thine..didst hazle and drie up the forlorne dregges and slime of Noahs deluge. 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. 129/2 To Haisle, to sun-dry... Haisle is still common in Ayrshire, and is generally used in reference to cloth or clothes. 1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield Hazzle, to dry slightly..It is better, if the ground is damp, to let the sun hazzle the surface of the land before the second harrowing. 1947 Mariner's Mirror 33 56 An east coast sailor..uses other words not commonly heard elsewhere, such as..‘hazle’ to mean to hang up sails or nets to dry. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 139/2 Hazzle, to dry in the sun. b. intransitive. Also with off. To become dry on the surface; to become partially dry. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > become dry [verb (intransitive)] > superficially hazzlea1825 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hazle, to grow dry at top. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Hazzle, to dry slightly. ‘If the clothes don't dry much, they'll hazzle.’ 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 59 To ‘hazle’ is not quite the same as to dry. Of washing hung out you may hear ‘that on't dry, but that'll hazle a bit’. 1929 H. Harman Bucks. Dial. 151 Hazle,..to dry on the surface in the sun. 1994 R. Baldwin in BDA Guide to Successful Brickwork (Brick Devel. Assoc.) ii. 36/3 Northamptonshire bricklayers say ‘Wait until the joints have “hazelled off” a bit before you joint-up.’ Derivatives ˈhazzled adj. English regional (chiefly midlands) (a) (of the skin) chapped; (b) (partially) dried, esp. by the sun. ΚΠ 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 42 Hazzled, chapped. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 316 When the skin is rough or dry, inclining to chap from exposure to a cold harsh wind, it is said to be hazzled. a1895 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 103/1 Now your hands are hazled. The child's skin is quite hazled. 1901 M. Combs in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 103/1 [Essex] ‘Have you all your linen dry?' 'No, but it is hazelled.’ 1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. (1980) ix. 244 We never felt as if our washing were clean if it hadn't been hung outside to get hazelled, and to this day I can't get used to things dried inside. 1970 H. Orton & M. V. Barry Surv. Eng. Dial. II. ii. 636 In frosty weather, your hands sometimes get all dry, red and sore, and you say your hands are . . .[Warwickshire] Hazled. 1979 N. Rogers Wessex Dial. 80/2 Hazzled, chapped. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1642 |
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