单词 | kill-cow |
释义 | kill-cown.adj. Obsolete exc. dialect. A. n. 1. A swashbuckler, bully, braggadocio; a terrible or great person; a man of importance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person jettera1400 flirdom?a1500 facerc1500 termagant1508 rutterkina1529 bellomy1535 bystour1535 roister1549 swash1549 rush-buckler1551 roisterkin1553 swashbuckler1560 dash-buckler1567 swinge-buckler?1577 whiffler1581 huff-snuff1582 swish-swash1582 fixnet1583 swag1588 swasher?1589 kill-cow1590 roister-doister1592 dagger1597 flaunting Fabian1598 tisty-tosty1598 huff-cap1600 swaggerer1600 burgullian1601 huff-muff1602 tear-cat1606 blusterer1609 wag-feather1611 wind-cutter1611 bilbo-lorda1625 tearer1633 cacafuegoa1640 bravado1643 Hector1655 scaramouch1662 swashado1663 huffer1664 bluster-mastera1670 Drawcansir1672 bully huff1673 huff1674 belswagger1680 valienton1681 blunderbuss1685 Draw can bully1698 bouncer1764 Bobadil1771 bounce1819 pistol1828 sacripant1829 hufty1847 bucko1883 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall Ded. sig. A3v What neede all this stir? this banding of kilcowes to fight with a shadow? 1639 Earl of Strafford Let. 26 Mar. (1739) II. 307 A Captain he is, but no such great Kill-Cow as they would have him. 1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 127 One Hamon (a notable kill-cow and noted dueller). a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 91 Well known to be one of the greatest kill-cows at drinking in the nation. 1890 Dial. Notes 1 i. 22 ‘He's no great killcow,’ i.e., he doesn't amount to much (of a person who thinks himself somebody). 2. dialect. A serious affair; a matter involving great trouble or loss. (Usually in negative phr.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > circumstance or occurrence plightc1300 woea1325 fanda1400 afflictionc1429 assayc1430 brier?1504 trouble?1521 distress1549 smarts1552 say?1572 infliction1590 disaccommodation1645 trial1754 ordeal1807 time1809 kill-cow1825 Via Crucis1844 Via Dolorosa1844 racket1877 pisser1957 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Ye needna mind, I'm sure it's nae sic great kill-cow. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Twadn no such kill-cow job arter all. 3. A nickname for a butcher. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery > butcher fleshmongerc1000 butchera1325 flesh-hewer1335 flesher1369 macegreffa1450 butcher man1481 kill-crow1593 pennyman1610 bovicide1678 pork butcher1763 carcass-butcher1773 butcheress1802 ox-feller1856 butchy1867 legger1876 charcutier1894 eviscerator1961 kill-cow- .. Old Ballad I would not be a butcher..For..He shall be call'd Kill-cow, and so shall be named. 4. A kind of spike-rush: see quot. 1898. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants rusheOE sharp rushc1050 seave14.. junk?a1425 candle-rushc1440 rush1562 sea-rush1562 camel's-straw1578 mat-rush1578 sprot1595 frog grass1597 matweed1597 rush grass1597 sprata1600 spart1614 bumble1633 toad-grass1640 moss-rush1670 thresha1689 spreta1700 bog rush1760 black grassa1763 goose-corn1762 toad-rush1776 wood-rush1776 stool-bent1777 scrub-grass1811 beak-rush1830 salt-weed1836 wiwi1840 thread rush1861 three-leaved rush1861 kill-cow1898 1898 N. L. Britton & A. Brown Illustr. Flora Northern U.S. III. Index 571/4 Kill-cow. B. adj. Bragging, bullying; terrifying. kill-cow fray, something made up to terrify. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective] termagant1546 roisterly1555 swashing1556 puffing1566 roisting1567 cocking1568 braving1579 huffling1582 kill-cow1589 roister-doistering1593 roister-doisterly1593 hufty-tufty1596 swaggering1596 huff-cap1597 sword-and-buckler1598 huffing1602 pyrgopolinizing1605 bold-beatinga1616 swash1635 swaga1640 blustering1652 bravashing1652 hectoring1664 hectorly1676 huffy1677 huff-snuff1693 swashbuckling1693 flustering1698 blustery1739 huffish1755 bravading1812 topping1815 Bobadilish1832 Bobadilian1837 fanfaronading1837 bucko1883 swashbucklering1884 swaggery1886 blokeish1920 blokey1938 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary) buga1425 buggart1440 gay horse1483 bogle?1507 chimera?1521 bog1527 terriculament1548 bugbear1552 bull-bear1561 hag1563 boggard1574 scare-bug1583 bull-beggar1584 kill-cow fray1589 poker1598 bug-boy1601 bogle-bo1603 mormo1605 mock-beggar1611 mormolukee1624 Tom Poker1673 raw-head1678 hobgoblin1709 bugaboo1733 Tom Po1744 spectre1774 bogy-man1862 bogy1865 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. ** The ingrafted ouerflow of some kilcow conceipt. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D2 In this vayne of kilcowe vanitie. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage I. ii. xii. 145 Like Semiramis Elephants which were but stuffed oxe-hides, kill-cow-frayes. 1633 J. Shirley Young Admirall iv. iii You are afraid Of him, belike: 'tis such a kill-cow gentleman! DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)] > terrify with threatening looks killcow1593 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 142 A new Art to kill-cow men with peremptorie termes, and bugges-wordes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1589 |
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