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单词 hood-pick
释义

hood-pickn.

Forms: Also 1500s huidpyk, hudepyk, hudpyk, hudipyk.
Etymology: apparently < hood n.1 + pick v.1; but the analysis is not clear.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A miser, a skinflint.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > of the worst kind
Jew1508
hood-pick?a1513
miser?1577
share-penny1606
flay-flint1672
skinflint1699
flint1841
skin1900
tight-ass1969
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 150 Hudpykis, hurdaris and gadderaris All with that warlo went.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 144 Sum gevis to littill full wretchitly, That his giftis ar not set by, And for a huidpyk haldin is hie.
a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 213 Alace! poore hood-piks hunger-bitten.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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