单词 | musard |
释义 | † musardn. Obsolete. A dreamer, a fool, an idler; a wretch. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting > one who musardc1330 tifflerc1535 dalliera1568 pingler1578 puddlera1585 wag-wanton1601 fiddle-faddle1602 piddler1602 pedlara1625 potterer1837 frivolist1884 frivoller1889 tiddlywinker1893 muck-about1933 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > one who daydreams musardc1330 John-a-dreams1603 air-monger1628 castle-builder1711 daydreamer1750 castle-hunter1752 Alnaschar1800 reverist1824 stargazer1843 Johnny Head-in-the-Air?1851 pipe-dreamer1899 head-in-air1932 Walter Mitty1947 Mitty1953 c1330 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) 122 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 117 Þe Inglische cowardes..no be bot mossardes. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) 380 (MED) Ich wene þou art a fole musard! ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 229 (MED) Comen is þe Sarazin..Clad in cloþes fyn; himself is a mosard. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 4034 Alle men wole holde thee for musarde [Fr. musart]..It sittith thee nought curteis to be. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vii. 171 The kyng Charlemagn maketh vs lyke fooles, and holdeth vs for nyce & musardes. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 183 We ne do but as musardes [Fr. chi fors muser a la folie]. 1532 (?a1400) Romaunt Rose 7560 (MED) Thou her watchest at the gate, With speare in thyn arest alway; There muse, musard, al the day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1330 |
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