单词 | hood-pick |
释义 | † hood-pickn. Scottish. Obsolete. A miser, a skinflint. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.?a1513 |
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