单词 | paterish |
释义 | paterishadj. English regional (south-eastern). Now rare. Of a sheep: showing symptoms of giddiness or ataxia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [adjective] > other disorders of sheep belt1614 tagged1614 spearworty1736 paterish1794 pothery1799 moor-sick1811 poked1828 respy1856 fly-struck1922 1794 Ann. Agric. 22 225 The disorders that attack [ewes] are the red-water, and being paterish, which last disease is never cured. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1169 Sheep in this situation among South Down sheep-farmers are said to be paterish. 1808 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Sussex 335 A paterish sheep appears to be deprived entirely of its senses, and is continually turning round instead of going forward. 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms at Puthery A sheep that has water on the brain, which causes it to fall down, or move in a very weak, tottering, and uncertain manner, is said to be Pothery or Potherish. 1853 W. D. Cooper Gloss. Provincialisms Sussex (ed. 2) 64 Patherish, silly, applied to sheep which have the disease known as ‘water on the brain’. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (1957) 92/2 Pathery, silly; applied to sheep... Sometimes ‘Patherish’, or ‘Puthery’. 1993 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 31 Oct. 30 They [sc. ‘old-time shepherds’] also used ‘staggers’, ‘goggles’, ‘turnsick’, ‘sturdy’, ‘dunt’ and ‘paterish’, all of which referred to the same ailment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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