单词 | hip-shotten |
释义 | † hip-shottenadj. Obsolete (U.S. after 17th cent.). Esp. of a horse: having a diseased or injured hip; (hence) lame, limping; = hip-shot adj. 1. Also (and in earliest use) figurative: clumsy, disjointed; cf. hip-shot adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty defaultyc1390 defectivea1398 defaultive1398 imperfectc1400 faultive1496 defectuous1550 defectious?1566 defaulted1580 defectual1582 defected1589 defectible1612 vicious1638 unfixed1643 hip-shotten1648 defectuose1677 flawy1712 off-colour1876 flawful1881 faultsome1891 trick1961 rogue1962 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [adjective] limphalta700 lamec725 haltc893 cripplec1230 alamedc1275 crippleda1400 left-handeda1425 limb-take1519 limp-legged1523 limpish1570 lamish1592 limping1599 spavined1647 hip-shotten1648 hamble-shanked1661 hop-legged1714 cripply1775 bockety1842 estropiated1917 1648 Mercurius Aulicus No. 9. 87 This must serve as a remora to the hipshotten vote of addresses. 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox i. 8 The eldest [daughter] was crump-shoulder'd and wrie-neck'd; the second was hip-shotten and halted with both leggs. 1665 J. Wilson Projectors ii. i. 15 Smithfield at the end of a long Vacation cann't shew such another Wall-ey'd,..Spur-gall'd, Hip-shotten, Greese-moulten jade. 1778 Inventory of Oswell Eve in Pennsylvania Arch. (1907) 6th Ser. XII. 767 1 yellow bay horse with a snip and star..hip shotten. 1853 C. W. Webber Spiritual Vampirism xxviii. 241 The joys brought home by the patient and industrious factory-girl, to some hip-shotten father or bedridden grand-papa. 1897 Ishmaelite Jan. 112 He owned or possessed at one time a skinny, sickle-hammed, hip-shotten, flea-bitten, undersized mare. 1923 T. Veblen Absentee Ownership ii. 34 A body of men whose sense of the realities is palsied with this manner of hip-shotten logic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1648 |
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