meldropn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛldrɒp/, U.S.

/ˈmɛlˌdrɑp/, Scottish English

/ˈmɛldrɔp/

Forms: Old English mældropa, early Middle English maldrop, early Middle English maledrope, 1800s melldrop (English regional (northern)), 1900s– mildrop (U.S.); Scottish pre-1700 myldrop, pre-1700 1900s– meldrop, 1800s mildrop, 1800s– meldrap.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Probably < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic méldropi saliva or mucus from a horse's mouth < mél bit (cognate with Old English mīdl , mīðl , Old High German mindil , Old Swedish mila , milja (Swedish mile ), Danish mile , and perhaps also classical Latin mandere : see manducate v.) + dropi drop n.).With the Old English noun compare the related adjective mældropiende :OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 182 Flegmaticus, mældropiende. The word was probably borrowed first into Old English in the Danelaw, and hence with Anglian long close ē (the only attested forms in Old English apparently have corresponding West Saxon ǣ , perhaps influenced by the existing pair: Anglian mēl , West Saxon mǣl spot, mark); later forms probably represent reflexes of Anglian ē and West Saxon ǣ both with shortening before the consonant cluster. For sporadic raising of e to i compare e.g. mildew n.

Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern).

1. A drop of mucus hanging or falling from a person's nose. Also: the foam which falls from a horse's mouth. Now rare.

ΚΠ

OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 188 Flegma .i. saliua,..horh, uel mældropa.

a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 46 De nes le rupie [glossed] mal-drop [v.rr. maledrope, droppyng].

a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 48 (MED) A mal drop [v.r. nose droppe].

a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid l. 158 in Poems (1981) 116 Out of his nois the meldrop [v.r. myldrop] fast can rin.

1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 30^v Snotty nos'd gentlemen with their drouping mustaches..becomes a harbroy to meldrops.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Mildrop, the mucus flowing from the nose in a liquid state.

1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Mell-drop, the least offensive species of mucus from the nose.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 209 Meldrop, a drop of mucus on the nose-end.

1981 A. Theroux Darconville’s Cat xxxvi. 211 Several photographs of their hydrocephalic baby,..a little meldrop of snot shining under its nose in every one.

†2. A dew drop. Also more generally: a hanging drop of water, etc. Obsolete.Paine's original text (see quot. a1895) in the National Intelligencer (1802) 22 Nov. 3/1 reads ‘creep along like drops of dew’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > dew > [noun] > a drop of

dewdrop1600

meldrop1825

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Meldrop, Meldrap,..the drop at the end of an icicle, and indeed every drop in a pendent state.

a1895 in Writings T. Paine (1895) III. 390 Birthday addresses..should not creep along like mildrops down a cabbage leaf, but roll in a torrent of poetical metaphor.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meldrop
释义	meldropn. Brit. /ˈmɛldrɒp/, U.S. /ˈmɛlˌdrɑp/, Scottish English /ˈmɛldrɔp/ Forms: Old English mældropa, early Middle English maldrop, early Middle English maledrope, 1800s melldrop (English regional (northern)), 1900s– mildrop (U.S.); Scottish pre-1700 myldrop, pre-1700 1900s– meldrop, 1800s mildrop, 1800s– meldrap. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Probably < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic méldropi saliva or mucus from a horse's mouth < mél bit (cognate with Old English mīdl , mīðl , Old High German mindil , Old Swedish mila , milja (Swedish mile ), Danish mile , and perhaps also classical Latin mandere : see manducate v.) + dropi drop n.).With the Old English noun compare the related adjective mældropiende :OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 182 Flegmaticus, mældropiende. The word was probably borrowed first into Old English in the Danelaw, and hence with Anglian long close ē (the only attested forms in Old English apparently have corresponding West Saxon ǣ , perhaps influenced by the existing pair: Anglian mēl , West Saxon mǣl spot, mark); later forms probably represent reflexes of Anglian ē and West Saxon ǣ both with shortening before the consonant cluster. For sporadic raising of e to i compare e.g. mildew n. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). 1. A drop of mucus hanging or falling from a person's nose. Also: the foam which falls from a horse's mouth. Now rare. ΚΠ OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 188 Flegma .i. saliua,..horh, uel mældropa. a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 46 De nes le rupie [glossed] mal-drop [v.rr. maledrope, droppyng]. a1333 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (BL Add.) (1929) 48 (MED) A mal drop [v.r. nose droppe]. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid l. 158 in Poems (1981) 116 Out of his nois the meldrop [v.r. myldrop] fast can rin. 1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 30^v Snotty nos'd gentlemen with their drouping mustaches..becomes a harbroy to meldrops. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Mildrop, the mucus flowing from the nose in a liquid state. 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Mell-drop, the least offensive species of mucus from the nose. 1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 209 Meldrop, a drop of mucus on the nose-end. 1981 A. Theroux Darconville’s Cat xxxvi. 211 Several photographs of their hydrocephalic baby,..a little meldrop of snot shining under its nose in every one. †2. A dew drop. Also more generally: a hanging drop of water, etc. Obsolete.Paine's original text (see quot. a1895) in the National Intelligencer (1802) 22 Nov. 3/1 reads ‘creep along like drops of dew’. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > dew > [noun] > a drop of dewdrop1600 meldrop1825 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Meldrop, Meldrap,..the drop at the end of an icicle, and indeed every drop in a pendent state. a1895 in Writings T. Paine (1895) III. 390 Birthday addresses..should not creep along like mildrops down a cabbage leaf, but roll in a torrent of poetical metaphor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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